This is why I dont' understand you being a lefty - the historical record demonstrates unequivocally that left wing forms of government actively prevent any of the citizenry gaining greatness, whilst right wing ones at least encourage peopel to try - even if they fail they had the opportunity to do so in the first place. Surely your belief in this case is libertarian, like mine?

As a question, purely as an arbitary thought experiment: which would you prefer - a world where everyone had $100, or a world where everyone had $1000, except for one person, who had $1,000,000?

Obviously I'd prefer the second, because everyone is better off even if there are greater degrees of social inequality, but I'd be interested to know you opinion, and why?