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Minor nitpick: economic inequality exists in other systems as well, it just often isn't as severe.
In any event, a lot of what you discuss also seems to stem from a failure to understand comparative advantage. If people got that a lot of this might go away. There's a TED Talk by Matt Ridley that touches on some of these issues.
One dies of hunger, another one has a few kilos of grains and survives. Had the second had a few tons of grains, the inequality would be even greater. But the first one could survive also, working for the second guy and be payed for with the food.