UM, EVERYTHING? George Will: What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About Income Inequality. “The fundamental producer of income inequality is freedom. Individuals have different aptitudes and attitudes. Not even universal free public education, even were it well done, could equalize the ability of individuals to add value to the economy. Besides, some people want to teach, others want to run hedge funds. In an open society, rewards are set not by political power but by impersonal market forces, the rewards of which will differ dramatically but usually predictably.”

Freedom produces insufficient opportunities for graft. And for demagoguery.