Please stop reverting without discussion A person who already has a house will get less utility from a new house than a person without a house at all I have no argument with that statement This implies a society with a more inequality would have less total utility than a more equal society with the same level of total wealth DOES NOT FOLLOW The total utility of a system is not equal to the sum of the utilities going to each individual A poor person who successfully steals money from the millionaire derives a lot of utility from the extra cash more than the millionaire loses This does not imply that the utility to a society increases as the result of the theft There are other social costs involved with theft and there may be other social costs involved with a homeless family of five in the millionaire s house depending on your value system The utility of a big house to a homeless family is larger TO THAT FAMILY than it is to the millionaire no dispute but the idea that the utility to the homeless family equates to utility to society does not necessarily follow To say that it does requires the introduction of some other value system which needs to be identified as such The same goes for anyone who says the utility to society is NOT increased by having a homeless family of five live in the house This too requires a separate value system that needs to be identified For example how much net value to society is housing a homeless family that is jobless no skills etc versus a millionaire brain surgeon Anybody who says they know the answer is assuming a value system and is assuming a POV We want to get rid of the neutrality dispute THIS SECTION SHOULD NOT BE USED TO PROVE THAT ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IS GOOD OR BAD To do so requires a particular set of values ALWAYS We should use this section to explain different value systems and whether and why they see economic inequality as good or bad The section that I have removed did not do this It was an attempt to prove that economic inequality is bad and this is not an absolute truth it is not an NPOV