The problem you&#x27;re describing is poverty, not inequality. How much money Larry Page or Bill Gates has doesn&#x27;t make your mother&#x27;s life any better or worse. Graham addresses this in the last paragraph:<p>&quot;Decreasing poverty is not identical with decreasing economic inequality. Some measures for decreasing poverty could well increase economic inequality. For example, if you gave every child in America the same quality of education Bill Gates had, that would surely decrease poverty. [5] But you would then create a lot of new Bill Gateses as well. These kids wouldn&#x27;t all stop short at middle class. The more ambitious ones would shoot right out the other side.&quot;