>Well, the only thing that really changes is technology. We don't need 30% of the population doing agricultural labour as we've automated most of it. We can transport goods long distances, giving us access to things no dreamed of 100 years ago. We can communicate instantly across the globe. These are all incredible achievements.

The world is a much better place to be sure. Capitalism has dramatically dropped poverty world-wide. It's great.

>What is the case is that inequality may not go away, but if one's own standard of living is increasing with relatively little effort, then that's the main thing.

Inequality starts before high school but is established at high school. Not everyone is equal, there are kids who are barely passing and there are kids who put the work in and earn top marks. This difference in personality will produce a different outcome.

The barely passing person who ends up in a mcjob earning minimum wage should not get the same benefits from society as the top marks kid who becomes a neuroscientist.

The neuroscientist should be driving his Tesla plaid edition while the mcjob is driving the 10 year old beater.

Inequality is not going away until some seismic shift in scarcity occurs; but even after we eliminate scarcity. There will still be inequality in different ways.