|nowadays even the lower 10% have their basic needs covered and some left for leisure. What dream world do you live in? The bottom 10% have enough to live and

|nowadays even the lower 10% have their basic needs covered and some left for leisure. What dream world do you live in? The bottom 10% have enough to live and leisure?! Where the heck did you get that statistic? And how much money, exactly, do you think people need to have their "basic needs" covered with money left over for leisure? |Not salary disparity though, as it isn't a problem in the first place Again, this is clearly based on your own opinion rather than any facts. If you were paying attention you'd see that having less income disparity leads to less crime, increased satisfaction within the population, better health of the population (and therefore productivity), decreased violence, decreased drug abuse, etc. Watch Richard Wilkinson for specifics: http://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_wilkinson.html http://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_wilkinson.html Income disparity absolutely is the problem. We shouldn't have total income equality, I don't think that is realistic, but we should set up our society so we can minimise it as much as possible.