That’s really more of a myth than reality. If you read actual reports of Spartan self reported history, they always report that they were equal in some mythical

That’s really more of a myth than reality. If you read actual reports of Spartan self reported history, they always report that they were equal in some mythical past, not that they are equal in the author’s current time. In reality there were pretty severe socio-economic differences even among the slave holding citizen class. The equality among the citizens is really propaganda, not reality.