The older brother in the parable of the Prodigal Son had human ideas of what is "just" and "right," but these human ideas are not necessarily how the kingdom will work, as the parable of the laborers in the Vineyard illustrates.
MT 20:1-16 "[Jesus said,] `The Kingdom of heaven is like this. Once there was a man who went out early in the morning to hire some men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard. He went out again to the marketplace at nine o'clock and saw some men stanging there doing nothering, so he told them "You also go and work in the vineyard, and I will pay you a fair wage.: So they went. Then at twelve o'clock and again at three o'clock he did the same thing...[and at five o'clock]....When evening came, the owner told his foreman, "Call the workers and pay them their wages...The men who had begun to work at five o'clock were paid a silver coin each. So when the men who were the first to be hired came to be paid, the thought they would get more; but they too were given a silver coin each. They took their money and started grumbling against the employer..."Listen, friend," the owner answered one of them, "I have not cheated you. After all, you agreed to do a day's work for one silver coin...Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?"
Comment: Those people working from the beginning of the day have a point: they, in fairness, have worked more, so they should have been paid more. The parable is not one about sound and unsound economic theory, but is one about human ideas (particularly one can point to human religious leaders of Jesus's time excluding other humans from Temple worship) not being in accord with divine ideas.