Paul Graham convincingly argued that the existence of wealth inequality was not a bad thing, compared to a completely level society, but nobody is really arguing for a completely level society where dishwashers make as much money as doctors and entrepreneurs.
Look at the second richest person in the article, the Amazon investor - no doubt he believes that entrepreneurs and investors like himself should be allowed to get rich, as does pg, yet he favors increased taxes on the rich. Paul Graham's article doesn't deal with his arguments, which are far more common in the real world than arguments for a return to the 98% tax rate of 70s Britain or the economics of East Germany, which are the most relevant real world cases pg refers to (at least nobody was arguing for that at the time pg's was written - I'm not quite sure about the Occupy crowd today). So pg devastated a strawman.
Look at the second richest person in the article, the Amazon investor - no doubt he believes that entrepreneurs and investors like himself should be allowed to get rich, as does pg, yet he favors increased taxes on the rich. Paul Graham's article doesn't deal with his arguments, which are far more common in the real world than arguments for a return to the 98% tax rate of 70s Britain or the economics of East Germany, which are the most relevant real world cases pg refers to (at least nobody was arguing for that at the time pg's was written - I'm not quite sure about the Occupy crowd today). So pg devastated a strawman.