Inequality is an innate trait in the animal kingdom. Virtually all social animals have an alpha male or female leader. Inequality is baked into the human genome. We are all distinct individuals.
The human standard of living has improved over time owing to technical advances, unrealizable by other animals, which serve individual needs and wants even in the lowest social strata. Global poverty has been in steady decline, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century. Two hundred years ago, most of the planet lived in extreme poverty. Today, less than 10% do. Inequality, however, remains alive and well, as all social strata have benefitted from the rise in living standards.
The Democrat party vows to overcome this persistent , nagging inequality.
In the 1960’s it instituted the War on Poverty. Since its inception, the poverty level in the US has not much changed, fluctuating from 11.1 to 15.2%, currently ~12.8%. This year, over a trillion dollars will be spent on welfare programs — Medicaid, rent and housing subsidies, income assistance, unemployment, etc. The war on poverty has been expensive but has not reduced poverty or inequality.
Social engineering programs — bussing, urban renewal, low income housing, affirmative action — don’t seem to be having much of an impact either, other than being disruptive.