The same laws that allow the wealthy people to make and retain their wealth make the poor people suffer their lot in life. If those that come from a defective gene pool or are born into a situation of poverty had the ability to exert some real control over their lives things would change. Because those who for some unknown reason draw the longest straw so to speak seem unable to feel the need for a world that uses reason and logic to distribute the wealth instead of greed and self-indulgence, we will not become equal until our death. Any law that would redistribute the wealth is seen by the wealthy as inherently evil. History has given us endless examples of how we should live and the folly of exploitation but the human animal seems unable to grasp these lessons. I do not think we need any religious books to predict where we are going to end up if we insist on sticking to our present path. A computer model should be able to compile the present statistics and extrapolate the results fairly easily. Just contemplate how many people died in the battle over wealth/power in this past millennium and the outcome is tragically clear.