&gt;How much money Larry Page or Bill Gates has doesn&#x27;t make your mother&#x27;s life any better or worse.<p>I dislike egalitarianism but this is fundamentally not true,  the whole point of economy is resource allocation and the more money you have the bigger the role you have in allocation - so &quot;big players&quot; like Bill Gates and Larry Page have a considerable impact on prices&#x2F;availability of things to everyone else (even when considering economy isn&#x27;t a zero sum game and new value is created to get rich).<p>It&#x27;s plausible that a more egalitarian society would make basic things like housing more affordable say at the expense of R&amp;D like developing new tech and medicine.