Make no mistake even as a moral problem the wealth gap isn&#x27;t just about empathy. The wealth gap is unjust, unfair and immoral.<p>Fairness implies that the wealth you generate as an individual is equivalent to the wealth you earn and own.<p>Right now 1% of the population owns 50% of the worlds wealth.<p>For 1% of the world to own 50% of the worlds wealth implies that 1% of the world generated 50% of the worlds&#x27; wealth.<p>It is not physically possible for a fraction of the human population to generate half the worlds&#x27; wealth. There is no reality where this makes sense. Thus for 1% of the population to own 50% of the worlds wealth, the 1% must obtain wealth generated by other people.<p>A common example of how this happens is through the ownership of a corporation. As an owner you own all the wealth generated by people who work for you. As owner you can do zero work, yet extract the wealth generated by hundreds of employees.<p>Owners essentially pay people less wealth than the wealth they generate. There is no circumstance where people will explicitly agree to such a transaction when given other choices.<p>It is fundamentally immoral and unfair to own wealth you did not produce or generate. This is not a question of empathy, it is a question of fundamental human rights.