Flipping fantasy tropes

Recently I've been reading a couple of highly-regarded fantasy books.  The central ideas in both books were intriguing, but I've struggled to love them.

A big part of the reason why I didn't enjoy them was the presence of tired old fantasy tropes.  In both worlds, the societies were stratified into rich and educated, and poor and not educated.  It would be  interesting once to read about the struggles of a leader who was attempting to bring economic and legal equality to their world.

What would happen if you did a 'Robin Hood', and took the top slice of wealth of every rich person in that land and redistributed it to those who were 'poor'.  Would that empower 'poor' people to think they could succeed, and so they'd no longer be willing to accept menial jobs?  Or would 'talent will out' disrupt that equity?  Or would the rich rebel and have that leader assassinated?

Would such a leader find that, over time, an in-demand artist, singer, storyteller, began to be rewarded more than other members of society?  If so, what would that leader do about it if those talented entertainers refused to perform if their rewards are stripped from them?  Perhaps as writers we ought to take on the challenge of standing outside our capitalist system and thinking of an alternative that might just work.

Then there's the question of what people do to survive.  Why is one of the default occupations of characters in fantasy worlds always prostitition?  What if we flipped the trope and gave those people jobs that didn't involve selling their bodies.  Maybe their world doesn't buy that service.

Let's assume they still work in the service industries.  Maybe one woman could be a 'master' baker, having learned the trade from her father.  Or maybe she is a highly-regarded chef.  If she is an only daughter of a tavern keeper she might inherit her father's tavern on his death.

Or perhaps a woman runs a high-class guest house where women guests are guaranteed a safe, rape-free place to sleep.  And then those guests might need a tailor to make them new clothes for the next stage of their journey.  Women have always been expected to do fine needlework, perhaps they could graduate to becoming tailors and running their own businesses.

These are just some ways to flip traditional fantasy tropes.  There must he hundreds more ways that empower women, yet keep within the constraints of the world. I just wish I saw more positive examples more often.  Like, perhaps, a woman offering safe sanctuary and an alternative way to earn their living to ex-prostitutes.  Now that would be a trope-flip worth reading about.