What evidence do you have that inequality is a source of disutility?<p>Note that if you pull out one of the ever popular left wing scatterplots putting cross-country inequality on the x-axis, I&#x27;m going to pull out one with a higher r^2 putting something politically incorrect like single mothers or black people on the x-axis.<p>As for proportional repersentation, if it indeed is <i>instrumentally</i> useful in creating utility that&#x27;s fine. But I only care about it insofar as it actually gets us other good outcomes - it&#x27;s not something I <i>intrinsically</i> value.