I don't get the expectation of justice here (from a purely analytic point of view). Power laws are pervasive across pretty much anything you look at. Why would

I don't get the expectation of justice here (from a purely analytic point of view). Power laws are pervasive across pretty much anything you look at. Why would wealth would be different? I understand the feeling of "it's not fair" (especially if you got the short end of the stick), but really, what is really fair other than random chance? It's quite hard to correct for an emergent phenomenon, I mean, something that seems to be a statistical property of the collective behavior of a large group of entities. Changing anything will have unintended consequences, since it's very difficult to predict the effects (as of why is this, I think non-linearity plays a big part, but that's a longer topic). My suspicion is that the middle-ages originated worldviews of western society are shifting now. Oversimplifying, there are two worldviews that come from religion in western cultures as far as I can tell. Catholic based worldviews, view poverty as a virtue, wealth as a sin (think Latin America). On the other hand protestant worldviews tend to think wealth is a sign of being good morally (US, UK, and some european countries). Lately, there's a shift in these, with the first one slowly showing its face in classically protestant countries, and a radicalization of the "poverty is good" view in historically catholic countries. As to why this is happening, it could be just a consequence of increased communication (i.e. everyone can voice an opinion online/see what's really going on far away) or something better organized.