It's funny how dim we humans are. Over and over it's equality that has made for a good society and prosperity, but we keep shifting out of it and into a greed-based system.
If we had a titter of sense, all trips of less than 5km would be by bicycle, we'd all grow a few vegetables, kids would cycle to school, wages and salaries would be within an ass's roar of each other, we'd make laws to ensure that housing is affordable and medicine a right. But somehow we keep trying that and then saying naah, more fun when it's grinding poverty for a lot and greedy gold-plated vulgarity for a few.