This is not about demonizing high-powered CEO’s or, as conservative commentators say, “hating success.” It’s about putting things into balance.
People with different degrees of ability—not to mention luck(good parents, good schools, good genes, and so on)—might end up, within a meritocracy, with rewards and privileges others don’t have. Some of that is unavoidable, if not desirable.
But the question is this. How far do we allow that to go before it’s a drag on our national interest and the effective functioning of our political and economic systems?
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