This question only worries me in the context of philosophy or in the context of the developed world. My experience, being born on the African continent and wit

This question only worries me in the context of philosophy or in the context of the developed world. My experience, being born on the African continent and with my (known) family having lived on the African continent for 10 generations, teaches me that this question is not a matter of philosophy but of pragmatism. The impression I have, whether illusory or not, is that the more fundamental human endeavor is towards Mazlo's pyramid of needs. One example that I can give is that often those that "defend" the position of the rich are not rich themselves, but rather believe in the value of personal property ownership. And with regards to those in developing countries in general, I think the feeling is that you simply want to better your life up to a point of some kind of perception of equal access to opportunity (whether attainable or not). My point is thus that inequality in wealth is perhaps like inequality in everything else, including inequal distribution of personal preferences (in everything). It's easy to say this as a person with access to education and opportunity and pretend to say it on behalf of others, and could of course be misguided, but I don't know if relative spread of opportunity is important in the way that absolute spread of opportunity is.