How does Ayn Rand's Objectivism address economic inequality?
Objectivism asserts that economic inequality is a natural and proper consequence of individual differences in talent, effort, and ambition within a free capitalist system. It is not a moral evil to be corrected by government redistribution. In a system of voluntary trade, wealth is created through production and exchange. The measure of a man's value is his productive capacity and his contribution to the common good through voluntary trade, not his need.