The confusion of inequality with poverty comes straight out of the lump fallacy—the mindset in which wealth is a finite resource, like an antelope carcass, which has to be divvied up in zero-sum fashion, so that if some people end up with more, others must have less.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 99