This is transparent left-wing propaganda; not sure how it's relevant to HN. To address the article's question, a recent poll[1] found that only about 1% of the

This is transparent left-wing propaganda; not sure how it's relevant to HN. To address the article's question, a recent poll[1] found that only about 1% of the population answered "inequality" in response to the question "What do you think should be the top priority for President Obama and Congress in 2014?" "Jobs" was much higher at 16%. Therefore one might conclude that most people don't particularly care what their percentage share of the economy is as long as they feel they are fairly paid and reasonably comfortable. After all, we could achieve equality by making everyone equally poor. Furthermore, the idea that most people would rather work hard and earn their money, rather than seizing it by force through mob uprisings, does not seem to have occurred to the author. The author is similarly apparently unaware that where this has been tried -- by the likes of Lenin, Mao, and Fidel Castro -- it was a failure, and a rather ... bloody one at that. [1] http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1999 http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-ins...