The proper procedure would be to line everybody up in order of how much money they have, select the guy in the middle, and then everybody moves their decimal point one position away from the middle.

Those above median move the decimal point to the left, and then give away money (to those lower down the list) until the amount they have matches the number they get.

Those below median move the decimal point to the right, and get money (from those higher up, until they're brought up to the number they got.

The guy with 1,000,000.00 ends up with 100,000.00, and the gal with 2.00 ends up with 20.00. (It's perfectly reasonable to expect the one with the least money to be a gal, so that's not a sexist statement.)

Of course we might have to do it over several times until the economy is stabilized, since 0.02% of the people start of with 99.47% of the money, and it will take lots of dollar or ten dollar increments to bring the 60% of people who are below poverty to come up to livable; but it's a perfectly iterable process, and it only has to run until everybody's just sufficiently satisfied to get tired of trading money with a bunch of strangers.

John