If people have rights, then they are unequal. If they have no rights, they are equal.
If people have rights, then they are unequal. If they have no rights, they are equal.
The Soviet Union didn't create wealth? It put a man in space before the USA - that took "wealth" by some definition of the word, perhaps just not "personal wealth."
In order to prevent famine, the Soviets decided to allow farmers a portion of land where they could sell what they grew. It kept the country from collapsing. Every historical attempt at collective farms collapsed from starvation or was propped up by government money.
Some inequality will always exist, but it should at the very least have a healthy balance point where the poorest get to live a decent life.
Currently, inequality is a labile runaway process, where the Gini-index is running towards a value close to 1.