“Extreme inequality destroys the social fabric of communities, leaving only despair in its wake. If positive liberty is defined as a greater ability to control or guide one’s life in the direction one desires, then ignoring its poor is perhaps the greatest single thing a society can do to ensure positive liberty is curtailed for a large segment of the population.”

https://medium.com/@craig.axford/equality-the-yeast-that-makes-liberty-rise-46f0c91a4144