This all sounds rather tone deaf. What is the point, in your mind, of "equality of opportunity" if it doesn't result in any outcome? How exactly are people at the poverty level helped, this month, by the performance of the stock market?

When someone making more than triple the median salary in this country (who I'm guessing has never had to live on minimum wage) says we don't need to discuss wealth redistribution, but without offering any concrete suggestions about how to help the poor today, I find it hard to take that seriously.