Suppose we identify some policy that discourages startups unintentionally, and for no direct public benefit. For example, a bureaucratic snafu in the process of

Suppose we identify some policy that discourages startups unintentionally, and for no direct public benefit. For example, a bureaucratic snafu in the process of opening a business bank account. Should we fix it? If we do, then more startups will get off the ground. Some of them will make it big, and their founders will get rich. Our action will have made society more unequal. So clearly we should leave it, right? But that doesn't seem right. So maybe inequality is not exactly the right framing of what we care about. We've had progressive taxes for a long time, and that's good, but they have not prevented inequality. So again, is it really the measure of goodness?