Yup, Allen is the definition of "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
This naive fool doesnt get that you cant make the world equal. Humanity, hell nature itself is hierarchal. There will always be winners and lose, those who can and cannot. Even if there was somehow a way that everyone had the same potential, even then everyone couldnt be equal because think for a second what everyone would want to be. A king or something else of fame and power, no one is dreaming of being the stable boy. And theres only so much room at the top, so then what? What do you do then when those of capable means are denied a position in life that fits their capability and are forced to wallow in something unsuited to their skills. What do you think they will feel. Very bad and dangerous resentment.
Allen is the most dangerous kind of person.
The trick, ideally, would be to ensure that those at "the bottom" are still able to not only live, but flourish with dignity. The 'stable boy' wouldn't want for a warm, dry bed and always having food on their table, and help when they're hurt or sick.
That's what I take from Allen's vision, at least. Not that everyone is rich and a king and tied for 1st place, but that those at the bottom of society still live fulfilling lives and are free of oppression and discrimination, and those at the top be morally upright and don't seek to control and oppress those beneath them.
Which....is possible, but at-scale is arguably very difficult to enforce at a sufficiently large society, without a lot of governmental-type levers to discourage runaway greed or malice while balancing against personal liberty and the common good.
And of course, setting something like that up takes a
lot of work and time and buy-in from everyone involved, and I do not know if Allen has properly reckoned with that fact.