Diem – Facebook open source Cryptocurrency written in Rust

To ask for equality of outcome is to ask for equity, which is a dangerous and disgusting ideology as it requires totalitarianism to enforce. It goes against the deeply western values of freedom and individualism.

If you want equality of outcome, you're welcome to leave and move to a society that shares your values. Just know that your destination society may not allow you to change your mind and come back, because again, enforcing the objective of equality of outcome requires totalitarianism.

To put this into more SWE friendly terms, imagine human beings as different inputs. Some are large, some are small. The socioeconomic system is the function the inputs are being fed into. A equality of opportunity function acts as an exponential multiplier - the 2's become 8's, the 10's become 1000's, and the 100's become 1,000,000's. This is why even those struggling to stay above the poverty line in the USA are often in the top 10% of income globally. Even schoolteachers here making a measly $30,000/y are unfathomably rich by the standards of the 700,000,000+ people living on less than $2/day.

It is true that the 1,000,000s and the 8's have a larger gap than they did when they were 2's and 100's, but even the 2 is substantially better off.

An equality of outcome function takes the floor of the inputs, and simply reduces the value of every other input to match (plus a little added corruption for those at the top). 2's remain 2's. 10's are reduced to 2's. 100's are reduced to 10's ("some animals are more equal than others"). This is fundamentally why the Soviet Union failed - the socioeconomic system kneecapped human potential.