Americans don’t want to be communists. The notion that everybody should make the same amount of money is far removed from our cultural values.
And yet, when we hear the term income inequality, we are automatically against it. Of course theoretically, if you are against income inequality, you think that everybody should have an equal—or the same—income. In reality, this is not how people understand the term.
It is more of an understanding that people should be fairly compensated for the work they do and that wealth should not be concentrated in the hands of the very few.
