The New Yorker: Million-Dollar Murray

This "power law" distribution approach to solving society's problems is a hard one to wrap your political beliefs around. It's big government handing out special favors to a select few. It's effeciency over fairness. Placing fixing the problem above the American dream of rags to riches. But more than anything I think it's cold rationality trying to fight the hot emotions of politics. And clearly it is emotions that rule the current political environment in the US.