The flip side of that argument is that the top xx% people and organizations have accumulated so much wealth that they really don&#x27;t know how to allocate it sanely. As soon as some channel opens to receive it (government or private), money starts flooding in, eroding the integrity of that investment channel - and stupid investments inevitably get made. Meanwhile, people can&#x27;t afford houses or pay for college because the price of their labor is being systematically minimized to increase shareholder value, and the world and national economy as a whole are showing a low-growth stagnation.<p>The question is often asked, what intrinsic reason is there to worry about income inequality? One reason is that when wealth is more evenly spread, the millions of micro-allocation decisions by many people help power a very efficient engine of capitalism. However, if the wealth is unevenly spread, then we have much fewer parties making very heavyweight allocation decisions, and many much smaller allocations being made by everyone else. Under that scenario, the engine of capitalism starts to drop in efficiency because it&#x27;s choking on too high a amount of misrouted investments in some areas, and not enough in others.