I find it staggering when people claim that they're engaging in 'raw economics' as opposed to 'ideology' as if these were entirely distinct fields. What you fail to understand is that: if capital was more widely spread more of it will be spent; if income was more widely spread more of it would...
Unusually, you and I will have to agree about your first sentence. The only real way to do something about inequality is at a global or at least supra-national level, and the likelihood of that happening in the current situation is not far off zero.
As regards your final sentence, the only...