In between Equality and InEquality (Economic)

 "Everyone is a brother to all, and for the first time, an idea has been realised that has never come to fruition on Earth: true equality.  The communists are baffled and irritated because they have finally achieved their perfect society, but only with the help of a God whom they don't want to believe.  The meritocrats are abashed that they are stuck for eternity in an incentive-less system with a bunch of pinkos. The conservatives have no penniless to disparage; the liberals have no downtrodden to promote.  So God sits on the edge of Her bed and weeps at night, because the only thing everyone can agree upon is that they are all in Hell." - David Eagleman. 

These lines are preceded by God debating who is to go to heaven and who to hell and stating that there is goodness in all. It is not easy to paint one as good and the other as evil. In Her generosity, She decides to grant everyone a place in Heaven.

Absolute equality doesn't work in my view,  as it takes away the causality for flow; that is another way to consider an idea of change.  Like still water goes stale and lifeless, an unchanging, unflowing world does not work. Hence, there is a need for gradience, some high and some low => inequality is necessary 'evil' (in inverted commas, as it does good as well), but when it goes to extremes, it becomes a menace.  I think that in any discussion or debate where a position of extreme, i.e. equality is good, inequality is bad, is position, it will be a good idea to pause and consider these three things:

    1) Inequality, to some extent, is a necessary condition to create the foundation for cooperation and trade, for the creation of work-product; 

    2) Unfairness that leads to extreme inequality is a menace as its asymmetry is power corrupting and destructive, and 

    3) Extremes are created through contracts, overburden, and inflation, which exacerbate inequality. Mechanisms in the form of regulatory frameworks are necessary to not eliminate inequality but to manage it in a way that allows for extracting utility out of it for societies at large.

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