What are the potential downsides to artificially lowering wealth inequality? One of the first things you learn in engineering and life: nothing is free. There

What are the potential downsides to artificially lowering wealth inequality? One of the first things you learn in engineering and life: nothing is free. There are trade-offs and costs to every decision. I could even describe the engineering process as mapping the valley of compromises between the mountains of constraints. Where is the optimal valley between total equality and total inequality? What happens when we end up too far in either direction?