1) the slowness of many society's willingness to update their ideas about geocentrism (or other astronomical phenomena) was not that they didn't like admitting

1) the slowness of many society's willingness to update their ideas about geocentrism (or other astronomical phenomena) was not that they didn't like admitting they were wrong, but rather that it didn't matter much. Many societies had very accurate ideas about, say, the patterns of tides, or which plants were poisonous. It wasn't that they were so resistant to admitting they were wrong, it was that geocentrism mattered so little. 2) I have never read a single economist's take on inequality that says that "...all is fair with the distribution of income." Perhaps there is such an economist out there, but every economist (neoclassical or otherwise) that I have ever read on the subject, admits readily that all is not fair. They may in some cases think that the cure could be worse than the disease, but all major economists of whom I am aware admit that there are unfair aspects to inequality.