Wallace the Miner

Wallace was a miner. One day while digging he discovered a cavern filled with jewels. He realised this was the fabled hiding place of Red Reginald the Socialist Buccaneer. Fortunately Red Reginald wasn't around, he was apparently busy engaged in the forcible redistribution of wealth to the proletariat. So Wallace took the opportunity to help himself to a small part of the wealth surrounding him. He then carefully blocked up the entrance to the cave and continued on digging his merry way.

He continued to work as a miner, because he enjoyed his job. But the jewels meant he could afford decent tools and hire other men to work with him. Eventually others discovered the cave as well and helped themselves to the booty. Red Reginald was kind of stuck once he found out that he was being robbed, because as a good revolutionary he had to admit that property was theft and thus people could not steal from him because otherwise he would be a thief too. The rouge rogue was trapped inside his own head and imploded in a feedback loop of inescapable human nature.

So eventually the supply of jewels was exhausted and nobody else became rich because there was nothing left to steal. Red Reginald would have appreciated the socialist irony of this.