[ruswick]

This is logically incoherent. The fact that a larger disparity exists between the ultra-wealthy in the West and impoverished people in the third world (though, to be fair, many parts of the West are beginning to resemble the third world) does not invalidate the point that inequality also exists within the first world.

Just because impoverished Africans can't get Ashton Kutcher to invest in their startup doesn't mean that you or I can.