Should the government work to substantially reduce the income gap?

Since when is working hard and improving yourself become something bad. Why can't people these days stop complaining and go out and do something for themselves. We don't help people by telling them they don't have to work and just giving them what everyone else had to work for. People do not discover self worth by be given everything instead of working to accomplish goals/dreams. When things come free you don't appreciate them, that is why we have a throw away society.