Inequalities

An unfair advantage is not necessarily a bad thing (I've probably posted about that before, but I really don't remember).  If I can take the same resources that're available to everybody else and build a race car that's faster than yours, then I have the classic unfair advantage.  And if you can't keep up with me, that's your problem not mine.  But that assumes there are no artificial advantages that impede you while not impeding me.

From The Firebrand
(btw - try to resist the knee-jerk rejection to which you may be inclined due to the name of the author and his references to Marx et al):

‘All men are created equal‘ declared by Thomas Jefferson seems to be, at first glance, an utmost agreeable proposition. But a quick examination reveals this to be fundamentally untrue, at least in practice, on many specific levels. The gender inequality is a hot topic in the recent months, with Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock (along with their colleagues Iowa representative Steve King, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith and Wisconsin state representative Roger Rivard) trying to convince women never to vote for the GOP again. Of all inequalities between people the most prominently discussed is the economic inequality, most commonly associated with the distribution of wealth. The observed concentration of capital was predicted by Marx in Das Kapital, and believed to be one of the main reasons for an inevitable crisis, with a select few wealthy capitalists confronted by vast, poor masses. The concentration of capital is believed to be the most important factor in the overall inequality, but I think that this may be an incorrect assumption, as the inequalities may be a function of another one, in my view deeper in its nature: information inequality. Neither the debates nor the public discourse at large is taking a look at information inequality, despite it being a foundational problem, greater than most of the topics discussed.

These relatively simple premises are what Conflict Theory and Critical Race Theory are all about - ie: the basic fact that the existing structure of any society tends to perpetuate (and over time, to amplify) artificial impediments that serve to widen the gap between the classes (delivering more power into fewer hands) and to push more people out of positions of power and towards poverty.

So while disparity can be a good tool for promoting healthy competition, I can also use it as a weapon to subjugate people who by right should be my peers.