> I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit. And I don't dispute that at a

> I'm simply saying that you can have income equality and still lack a healthy business environment where ideas compete on merit. And I don't dispute that at all. What I am saying is that society's prosperity is optimized somewhere between total equality and extreme inequality, and that we seem to be drifting further away from that point.