Ben Shapiro

On a moral level, this is wrong.

Inequality of outcome will always exist because humans are not the same.

In fact, your level of wealth today is not the same as your level of wealth in 40 years.

Does that mean that you are inferior now to the person you will be 40 years from now?

Of course not.

The fact is this.

True justice is that equals are treated equally and unequals unequally, as Aristotle suggested.

Thomas Sowell observed in his 1999 book, The Quest for Cosmic Justice, justice is a process, not an outcome.

We're not God that we can simply say, let there be equality or let there be justice.

we must begin with a universe that we were born into and weigh the cost of making any specific change in it to achieve a specific end.

Inequality is not inherently inequity, and disparity is not inherently injustice.

Also, from a utilitarian angle, this is just wrong.

Socialism may create more equality, but only in poverty.

Capitalism, meanwhile, may create more inequality, but mainly because everybody is richer.

If I make a million dollars and Bill Gates makes $10 million, we have more inequality than if we both made $0.

Socialism thinks the latter is better.

In 1820, 80 to 90% of the world lived in extreme poverty.

By 2026, 10% of the world lives in extreme poverty.

That is free markets, not socialism.

Socialism, government ownership of the means of production, eliminates the mechanism by which producers know what to make and how much to make of it.