Is There a Wealth Inequality?

Everyone now just about carries around an extremely high fidelity camera and a supercomputer in their pocket, which can do the kind of experimental work that people before could only dream of. The fact that so few people use them in order to actually do science, well, that's another issue. People talk about the increase in inequality, but that is usually only ever based on number of shares in a company held by someone like Elon Musk who happens to own one of the most profitable companies. On the other hand, inequality has never been more narrow. Many of us own phones identical to Elon Musk. And all of this is to say that the typical person has access to technology, which directed towards scientific discovery