Are societies hard-wired to tolerate income inequality?

Slate by Tim Harford | Nov. 24, 2007 (Comment)

income distribution within a modern society is much the same as income distribution in imperial Rome or England and Wales at the time of the 17th-century Glorious Revolution. It's not that there is no variation at all but that modern societies are as different from each other as from ancient societies. Full Story »

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by Kevin Reilly - Oct. 1, 2008

It's mushy journalism. What does the author mean by "hard wired"? It's a term borrowed from neurophysiology and, it's use to describe income distribution is, in a word, a leap. After a fairly captivating introduction the piece meanders and finally finishes with the hard wired supposition. What was the point?