The ideal IMO is single breadwinner households with a two story house and one car and decent public transportation. Single breadwinner is particularly important - many families grow up with both parents absent for much of their lives. They don't learn what love is and this leads to broken families and crime as their children don't have a good framework.
Inequality also causes a lot of political distortion. When the rich get richer, they try to hold power. They spend more, debt goes out of control. The poor are treated like they deserve to be poor. Bad work ethic becomes the norm for this society. Increased debt and spending hits a point where the ROI is negative. The poor become increasingly desperate and murderous. Wars trigger. The empire overextends. The inability to pay debts result in bank runs. And this pattern repeats itself again and again in nearly every fallen empire.
No amount of technological advances or wealth helps if there's runaway inequality.