[Turing_Machine]

Of course, there's also a substantial and growing body of research that indicates that ill-advised attempts to "equalize wealth" also lead to social ills, such as a pile of 100 million or so dead bodies.

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

[ClHans]

Ah, yes, the brutal regimes of modern-day Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and others in Northern Europe!

where people aren't routinely bankrupted by medical debt, and don't enter adult life or the adult workforce straddled by terrible student loan debt, and workers have rights!

Obviously, the sort of inequality we have in the U.S.--now greater than that of imperial Rome--obviously that's the right way to be, and the only way society (or at least a tiny fraction of it) can thrive. Right? That's what you're saying, right?

[Turing_Machine]

"where people aren't routinely bankrupted"

You haven't been following the latest economic developments in the Eurozone, I see.

[Turing_Machine]

Mod me down all you want. It won't get rid of the stench from all those corpses.