That's the premise, isn't it? The local sandwich shop owner, a small business, makes more money relative to the global price of an iPhone or a solar panel so there is less wealth inequality.
The only useful increase in equality is the one that makes ordinary people better off. Making them poorer just to spite the rich by a larger amount is absurd.
The idea behind subsidising re-education is that it benefits the society in the long run. I guess I have no proof that it isn't what makes Scandinavian GDP/capita lower.