Would the concept of consumers' surplus be a sound welfare measure if the income distribution were deemed

Question:

Would the concept of consumers' surplus be a sound welfare measure if the income were deemed inequitable? If so, in what way?
Distribution
The word "distribution" has several meanings in the financial world, most of them pertaining to the payment of assets from a fund, account, or individual security to an investor or beneficiary. Retirement account distributions are among the most...