“Inequality” Screw them, the only possible economic “equality” comes from the bleakness of communism, and not even then.
Quite. They think they can achieve “equality” by averaging everyone’s wealth. Problem is, the numbers are not static when the forced averaging occurs: the high outliers, and to great degree across the board, will cut their productivity drastically. Result are far lower numbers, resulting in an average far lower than expected. Nobody above the line will want to continue such production when it will be taken away, and even those below the line will work less knowing they’ll get more without effort.