[chad_walters]

This article is terrible -- it sets up a false dichotomy. The article actually refutes it's own conclusion in the paragraphs about what people view as the ideal income distribution. We don't want total equality but we do want less inequality than is actually present today in every 1st world country. So we should care about the current (and growing!) levels of inequality -- even if we don't want a perfectly equal distribution, we want one that is more equal.