No deservingness without making real sacrifices. A rich who has "inherited" expensive tastes may make more sacrifices trying to live with less than a happy worker makes sacrifices by going to his/her work.
You would still be a slave without 18th century revolutionaries and 19th century unions' activists who have defeated Kings' armies and insisted for more proper compensation of work efforts relatively to risk-takings.
Equalization brings freer trade when achieved by transferring the means to subsidize exports away from direct producers and towards the populations without access to the resources.
My French perspective allows me to correct you. Very small monetary transfers to developing nation populations would allows them to reject substandard jobs.
It is not ridiculous at all to envision a circumstance - say global ecological problems that are on the verge of triggering a global nuclear war – where we may have to propose doing that.