Are Democracy and economic equality fundamentally incompatible?

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scat398 said:

Economic equality doesn't exist in reality, and we should all be fortuante it doesn't.  If a society were ever to achieve this white whale it would crumble instantly.  

The sad thing is your professor actually thinks economic equality is probably something to try and achieve.

You didn't read the whole thread.  I'll put it in the op after this but the question is not about the possibility of economic equality existing.  It simply is asking if democracy inhibits it, or encourages it.  You can surely get closer to economic equality than we have now. 

Perhaps you should take a look at other countries (with different forms of government), and tell me whether their systems are any closer. Every country has that 1% that just has a ludicrous amount of money/power compared to the rest of the people. It doesn't matter the system.