Everybody in my family except for my grandmother and me studied economics and/or business. Until recently (and that piece was hugely formative) I didn't think that meant I had any opinion to offer to a broader discussion of distribution of wealth. And maybe I don't. But Marx put such a morally clear narrative thrust on what's typically disguised as a purely economic discussion: we've accepted the rules of free market capitalism in the same way that we've accepted natural laws like gravity, but they're not the same. Furthermore, it always felt wrong that the left spent decades surrendering the language of morality to the right when it's such an effective and emotionally resonant way to make a point: being rich is wrong.