The Pareto distribution is an exponential curve where the top 20% do better than the lower 80% and being exponential, this repeats fractally within the top 20%.
And it’s everywhere:
The tallest trees in the forest will get most of the light and grow disproportionately taller
The heaviest stars will have the greatest gravity and attract most of the other stars, thereby getting bigger
The biggest celebrities' will attract most of the fans and make most of the money
80% of revenue comes from just 20% of customers.
80% of the property was owned by just 20% of the property owners.
So inequality doesn't seem like a flaw in humans or human system. It seems to be baked into reality. So even if access to the means of production and their products were distributed equally, the Pareto Principle seems to indicate that there will eventually be inequality.
And if the supposed answer is the most productive 20% will just continue to have their productively distributed to the 80% then it's human nature that those 20% will simply stop being that productive, Which may seem like you've reached the goal of equality but if this happens in food production then there will be much less food and people starve. In health care, fewer people have access. Fewer goods are transported. And so on.
So, can things ever be equal? Probably not. Unless one counts "everyone is poor, miserable, and starving" as being equal which seems to be the only way communism ever "works"
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