What's wrong with trying to enhance the standard of living/provide an easier life for everyone/everyone's offspring? Equality is only a bad thing if we are equally destitute. Sure, if everyone is middle-class or above, people like you won't get to feel superior to all the peasants, but is that really a drawback? And for f**k's sake, you won't be poor, don't complain. If your ultimate goal is to be better off than your ancestors and to ensure that your descendants will be better off than you, what difference does it make if your countrymen are equally well-to-do? That only matters if you actually want to be a modern day aristocrat--in which case, just become a CEO.
For the record, I don't really care either way as long as my rights and the rights of my friends and family are left alone. Social democracy; laissez-faire capitalism; a free market regulated to prevent trusts, monopolies and corporatism with a social welfare system to provide for the needy; or some new system entirely, I'll work with it. I see no reason to be like others on this forum and in life that vehemently attack differing schools of economic thought--those aren't the problem, folks, it's the state. Once government is under control, then if you find a legitimate reason to argue the merits and ills of various economic systems, have at it. It's mostly only philosophically relevant though, any economic system done right will work.
Oh, still on ignore btw, just felt like replying this time.