"In Defense Of Prosperous Inequality"

Financial equality or wealth creation? What would you prefer our economic leaders optimize for? (TechCrunch):

There is an important role for the government to provide safety nets and job training, but indirectly blaming innovators isn’t a productive message.

But, financial equality has never been, and will never be, a goal of the Internet economy. The goal is wealth creation. For those who can now access world-class professors and medical treatment anywhere in the world, Silicon Valley has lived up to its promise.

What is sometimes depressing is that I know there is not an insignificant number of people who believe we should optimize our societies for financial equality.