I’d say that fighting extreme inequality is fighting the forces of nature. It’s like climbing a very steep, very tall mountain. You can make some progress, but you keep sliding back down, and even when you’ve reached the summit and have temporarily eliminated extreme inequality, as in a socialist society, you’ve nowhere to go but back down again. The roots of economic inequality are in the dominance hierarchy or pecking order, which organizes groups within most social species of animals.

It’s just important to know what we’re all really mad at. The progressives and the misled Republican trolls both want to eliminate the extreme inequality or at least make it harder for billionaires to rig the economy against the majority. But it’s not just the cabal of the top one percent that’s rigging society; as human predators or parasites, the top one percent are only exploiting some weaknesses in the natural evolution of most animal species, including ours.

We’re unequal because we’re still mammals and primates that think instinctively in primitive terms about our social relations. When we react with awe to a celebrity we happen to see in person, when we instinctively revere the rich and powerful, we’re helping to rig the system in favour of extreme economic inequality, because we’re putting the one percent on a pedestal.