Maybe I'm misreading you, but it sounds like you're saying "inequality is only important insofar as it affects me". Advances in technology (including healthcar

Maybe I'm misreading you, but it sounds like you're saying "inequality is only important insofar as it affects me". Advances in technology (including healthcare) are usually bankrolled by the wealthy - wealthy people and corporations. The middle class doesn't pool together a billion dollars to research drugs for heart disease. University research is funded by wealthy benefactors, grants (in turn funded by wealthy benefactors), Government money (funded by taxes, a disproportionate % paid by the wealthy) and so forth. It seems fair to me that they'd get first dibs. We're all trying to grow our dynasties, that's why we have kids. It's not inherently evil.