there is a fundamental disagreement among your points " Compared to somebody who is totally unschooled and is maybe just a general labourer. Is it fair that they received the same benefits ? are they not both human and thus equally important members of society. I believe all human life is sacred and nobody can say they are inferior. There is no room for pompous and arrogance." down to "Your "wealth" is your status in the society. Sure , a great science team receiving praise from solving a massive problem compared to cleaners not getting any recognition at all would possibly breed discord among citizens. But that's how life is and we need to accept that there is always gonna be someone better than you" The problem is this is not really how people are all wired. Some people will do their best work for praise, others will not, because everyone is not motivated by the same things. I have an intellectually disabled child. She should be properly fed, cared for and treated with dignity, as all people should be, but all people are not. People are not equally important members of society. Would you say my daughter is as important as a surgeon who saves lives every day? She is not. There will always be differences in outcomes as there will always be differences in people. Our remunerations should give the most to the most important, but so far ours gives the most to CEOs without any parameters for performance, it also gives a lot to sports figures and entertainers, with some requirements for performance value. It gives very little to the best teachers, the best motivators, or the most creative and inventive. We must have equality of opportunity, to make sure that our most promising can reach their full potential, but do not ever expect equality of outcome.