Originally Posted by ubertuber

Of course what you say is true, but that doesn't exclude the issue from consideration and us from exercising judgment in our systems of government. While "every nation on earth...has had issues of unequal wealth distribution", those nations have dealt with the issue in different ways. Those different reactions have had different effects. Shouldn't we at least be conscious of what we're doing and what effect it might have, even if we're confronting universal conditions?