Concept of Equality

Envision a scenario where the top 1% of the most productive individuals are eradicated. By top 1%, I mean the brightest minds - the doctors, scientists, engineers, technicians, and others who genuinely make our world function. Remove them and there would be no medicine, no internet, no air travel, no engineering, and no knowledge. We would regress by decades.

Now imagine we lose the bottom 50% of the population, say, everyone with an IQ less than 100, or the least productive group within human society. We would face some logistical issues, but there would be no long-lasting damage to human civilization.

So, this raises a question. Why does the liberal left, who hold virtue in high regard, have an issue with the top 1%, the most substantial contributors to human civilization, owning and earning more than the bottom 50%?

Of course, equal opportunities should be available to everyone, but enforcing equal outcomes is impractical. That would be ludicrous, counterproductive, and indeed devastating for everyone, as evidenced in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Cuba, Venezuela, and many other countries.

We should not forget that China only managed to rise after it stopped enforcing equality.