You're choosing the goal when I thought the question here is how to set the goal in the first place. You can say to use a utilitarian standard, but that simply

You're choosing the goal when I thought the question here is how to set the goal in the first place. You can say to use a utilitarian standard, but that simply begs the question of whose utility, as these can be in direct conflict and in practice, people choose their own or their in group's utility. Also, even when we set up some political system to enforce this inequality, we often have ended up making a different concentration of power in the positions that actually run that system, destroying the very equality that was supposed to be created. Money is just one form of power and different kinds of power are generally convertible.