To a point, I agree with PG. It's perfectly ok with me to have superstars getting paid like, well, superstars. I certainly do not want everybody to be equally r

To a point, I agree with PG. It's perfectly ok with me to have superstars getting paid like, well, superstars. I certainly do not want everybody to be equally rich, or, much more likely, equally poor (let's call this "equality of arrival"). But I would like a more equal society at the starting line ("equality at the start"), and not only for reasons of justice, but because a system of haves and have-nots that in fact makes it much harder for the sons and daughters of the latter to make it is also depriving society of people who could make a contribution, and sometimes never get the chance to. As a result, society will end up being poorer. I do not at all think it is by chance, as a counter argument, that countries and societies where women, who make up 50% of the population, are on a more equal standing with men - think Scandinavia, or Holland, or Germany - are also among the richest, not to mention happiest and most peaceful, in the world.