"the market distribution of wealth patently does not reward in proportion to how hard-working people are, or how much of a contribution they make to society."<p>I've always wondered why we collectively defend this unproductive distribution.<p>The best example to me are jobs where few serve many thousands of people making it so that charging 2 or 3 cents extra would add up to a relative enormous salary. But in stead people are paid minimum wage while almost no one thinks it is idiotic.<p>Would you ask the consumer for a raise so that the pack of cookies would cost 1.02 in stead of 99 cents I think few wold protest. I would have a hard time taking those who do seriously and their % would would have us completely ignore them in the decision making.