Funny I just had this discussion with a gal earlier today about racial / culture equality. She made a good point; not all cultures are equal. Many have different moral values / codes and customs, different living conditions and expectations, different religions, etc...her basic point is that word, equality is being used as a tool to take from producers and give to non-producers...
It’s true that cultures have different values, and that’s not all bad until you make “inequality” a crisis instead of simply accepted. Take a culture like the Navajo; their tradition has many excellent features. However, as long as it’s important to them to live in the desert Southwest, “between the holy mountains,” they’re never going to be economically equal with people who are willing to move to where the jobs are.
If they accept that, and say, “The cost of the good parts of our traditional way of life is that we will live in relative poverty,” then they should be content. However, if a group of people thinks they should be able to live a culture that does not promote economic efficiency, yet have the same standard of living as one that does, then they’re SOL.