Equal pay is ridiculous.
Income inequality is the most just system yet of rewarding incentive and subtly punishing sloth and feigned indifference. In America (what the heck, anywhere actual capitalism is practiced), you are about as well off as you choose to be. That means NOT choosing some dissipating habits, and selecting from a menu of personal life goals, then learning how to exercise the skills that lead to achievement of that goal.
Opportunity abounds, But you must go to the opportunity, because opportunity so rarely simply jumps in your lap, and if it does, is often brushed away as “annoying”.
Some 95% of all the personal woe in this world is self-induced