Bloomberg has a good rebuttal about the measurements used in this "study":
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-10/just-how-rich-are-r...
Additionally Russia's gini coefficient (income rather than wealth) puts the US as more unequal than Russia.
Additionally Russia's gini coefficient (income rather than wealth) puts the US as more unequal than Russia.
You should not get paid the same thing for different work.
If I work twice as hard as you at the same task, you should not make as much as I do.
I wonder how long it then took to get to imposed equality.
If you're struggling to program something and I do it easily, you should be compensated for your incompetence?
Work shouldn't be defined by effort but by results -- and that isn't always reasonable to quantify (which would be needed if it was to be the basis of a (fair) reward system).
I agree that "perfect equality" isn't an ideal (in pretty much anything). I do thing equal opportunity is a worthy goal, though.