If the U.S. were ever so foolishly intent on shrinking inequality, doing so would be easy: abolish usage of cars, planes, computers, smartphones and the internet. Presto, inequality shrunk substantially. And a nation immiserated.
Which is the point. Inequality isn’t a pejorative, it’s a sign of individuals having the freedom to do what they do best all the while improving the lives of others in the process. The freer the people, the more the inequality.
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