sentences:  Classical liberal economists such as Friedrich Hayek maintained that because individuals are diverse and different, state intervention to redistribute income is inevitably arbitrary and incompatible with the rule of law, and that "what is called 'social' or distributive' justice is indeed meaningless within a spontaneous order".Those who would use the state to redistribute, "take freedom for granted and ignore the preconditions necessary for its survival".Americans are not generally aware of the extent of inequality or recent trends.