Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense – the idea that anyone can make it.
Men may change their climate but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.