I have a four-part series (here, here, here, and here) that explains why it’s much better to focus on fighting poverty rather than fretting about inequality.
I also think that our friends on the left who fixate on inequality are mostly motivated by an ideological desire for bigger government (or an ideological desire to hurt the rich).
Helping the less fortunate seems to be – at best – a secondary concern for them.
But let’s not worry about deciphering their real motives and instead look at why their approach is misguided.
Here’s a tweet from Gabriel Zucman, who (along with Thomas Piketty) is one of the most widely cited crusaders for class-warfare policy.
He is upset that the richest people in the world earn a lot more than the poorest people, and he obviously wants people to view these numbers as scandalous…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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