> What’s inherently bad with differences between poor and rich people? This is not the argument. Concern rests on the size of the gap, rather than the fact of

> What’s inherently bad with differences between poor and rich people? This is not the argument. Concern rests on the size of the gap, rather than the fact of differences. Greater inequality is associated with many negative properties, such as decreased social trust, declining mortality rates, political instability, etc. > The poorest people in the planet today have access to more resources than the greatest king had 500 hundred years ago. Is the new bar going to be 500 years ago? > Are you saying you would like all of us to be equally poor? ...What? > To me this sounds more like jealousy and virtue signaling than anything else. Are you suggesting that a concern for mounting inequality is a form of jealousy? And to the extent that what you say about signaling is true, I'd take a whole heaping pile of "virtue signaling" over bad faith reactionary arguments to very real and very dangerous social problems.