Living off redistributed surplus is exactly what happens when you don’t work.

I’ve been there: no job = food pantry + food stamps.

I live in a nice area. Since we are wealthy, our local economy has quite a bit of surplus. The food pantries regularly have organic and high end food. Plenty of people with money go there just because - why not?

The poorer parts of the county don’t have as much surplus, so they’re food pantries had old cheese and peanut butter.

I’m not sure what the solution is.

who will redistribute stuff?

You are simply selecting new elites to be from the redistributor class (vanguard party, Nomenklatura, secret police etc), instead of the entrepreneural class.

Works well if you are the one redistributing stuff from "rich to poor", but it ends up as creating a new elite class, every single time

No, it's much better for an elite class of superhumans to hoard all the wealth. After all they guided us to our current utopia, the least humanity can do is give them the vast majority of wealth.