>If by egalitarianism you argue "equal pay for equal work", then that implies both unequal pay for unequal work, as well as income inequality for those who work

>If by egalitarianism you argue "equal pay for equal work", then that implies both unequal pay for unequal work, as well as income inequality for those who work less over those who work more. The goal was never to pay people the same amount; in fact, such a scheme wasn't even proposed by Karl Marx himself (he argued against the idea that we should all be "paid equally") - I should have actually stated the other case, in which people who don't work more (all factors relating to productivity considered) actually end up earning more than those who do. I'm of the opinion that the sort of equality which most people seek cannot be found in a system of wage labour and capital - precisely because of them.