KSUW: is inequality not a problem or is it just any proposed remedy that is bad?
We're not all equal. Blame mother nature. Unequal gifts, unequal talents. The best we can hope for is equal opportunity, not equal outcome. Liberal efforts to put a thumb on the scales in order to balance things out are both immoral and failures. They involve redistribution of weath and opportunity (see, e.g., race-based college admission standards).
You should give the article below a read. This Plutocrat himself, a multibillionaire and unapologetic capitalist, argues that it's not that there is inequality; of course that is bound to happen in any capitalistic society. It's that it is occurring at an unprecedented rate and magnitude. He states something to the effect, "you show me a society with this much inequality and I'll show you a police state or imminent uprising". The entire premise is that it's true...the game is rigged. His take home, however, is that they need to start favoring their employee base as much as they do their customers, that they ARE their customers (the Henry Ford model). He argues that this is not only conducive to long term profits, but that the inevitable alternative as evidenced throughout history will not be kind to them. He further cites the fact that Seattle, being one of the fastest growing city economies for start-ups and small business, is an example to this fact as they have one of the highest minimum wages limits in the Nation. Anyway, it's a good read and offers a lot of unapologetic truth, while allowing one to see the issue without so much as getting defense for the feeling of misplaced guilt.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U83G__ldWVM