I don't always agree with your points (or the way you make them), but this one rings true for me:

So, any game that tries for income equality just fails. Because, there is no way for the player to get ahead. No success = no enjoyment.

The irony is, in our attempt to create "fairness" we end up creating something with unequal rules (top-down management) trying to benefit one group over another in the name of equality which ends up failing entirely.