The obsession with equality is disturbing and, ironically, shows a hatred for diversity. The fact that we're not all the same is what makes the market possible.

The obsession with equality is disturbing and, ironically, shows a hatred for diversity. The fact that we're not all the same is what makes the market possible. The obsession with income equality across occupations is also grotesquely rooted in a worship of money. Differences in income are not a problem per se. If there is a problem, the biggest one is poverty, another is the way in which the ultra-rich use their money to gain power over lots of people. The former is not unrelated to the latter. The discussion should shift away from the self-indulgent paranoia and petty jealousies of upper middle class navel-gazers and focus on these more pressing issues.