Stanley Fish Gets It Wrong Big-Time on Inequality

In a NYT column on inequality and fairness, Stanley Fish told readers:

"Americans don't mind if income is redistributed as long as it is done by market forces and not the government. Income equality is fine if it is 'naturally' achieved, but if it is socially engineered it can be perceived as class warfare, a plot against the well-to-do."

Three paragraphs later he poses the rhetorical question:

"Is it fair that Internet pirates in China can appropriate without paying for it the intellectual p...