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Because of averages. A smooth bell curve is a description of "average". Anyone who has ever had a college course that was graded on a bell curve understands perfectly.
Average is one number, a bell curve has more than one number on it.
Average is actually three numbers: the mean, the mode, and the median. They are all different. But why a smooth bell curve is somehow desirable other than for aesthetic reasons is beyond me.
Again, no one pumping this wealth distribiution nonsense is able to identify at what point it becomes "inequitable", what the problems that arise from it are, or why the solution would not be worse than the problem.
It's not policy to be driven, it's a gauge to see if current policy is fair - nothing more.