Exactly. And Locke echoed that sentiment when he said, in essence, that conservatives prefer liberty over equality. It was the faux egalitarianism of the French Revolution (founded on the Humanist ravings of Rousseau) that made it so bloody, while the American Revolution, based on Lockeian social contract, simply removed the encumbrances to liberty and let each man rise to his own potential. The French ideal punished those who dared excel; the American model left them free to enjoy their reward.
Look how far we’ve fallen. “Social justice” is just a turd in a bowtie, a euphemism for the punitive economic leveling we escaped at our founding.
Note how Leftist theories are always based upon wish lists--what they wish were true, rather than what is actually true. The only difference between Rousseau and the American Academic quack of today, is that Rousseau actually might have had an original idea once or twice. But the confusion of wishes & horses & figurative pigs growing wings, goes back a very long time.