Found an Aussie in the field you might find interesting Who leans more philosophically like I initially did as in lobster theory device closer to metaphor Than to be taken literally..
As Peterson argues elsewhere, inequality has its useful side — it drives innovation, for example. But like a lot of things, it doesn’t necessarily follow that more is better.
Sadly for the health of lobsters, they are not high enough up the evolutionary tree for several of them to gang together and bang an uppity one over the head with a clam shell. But human societies have ways in to keep that primitive urge to dominate in some sort of check (taxes for example). That deep-down part of our brain monitoring “exactly where” we are positioned in society will always be there — but we do have a choice as to what kind of society that is.