I think everyone is just overthinking this and worried over nothing.
Last ladder I started with barely any gold at all and as everyone can see now, I have more than "barely any".
And most of my gold is from selling all my items from this current ladder, which everyone has a chance to do.
I have not spent 1 cent of my own money to purchase any of the gold I have now.
And for the last few months I haven't spent any of my gold on anything just to save up for next ladder.
And I don't intend to waste it on infernal chests when I could use it much more wisely later on.
Also 10,000 of my gold is from voting which everyone has the ability to do, so everyone has the same chances.
The people complaining that everyone with a lot of gold will have an advantage shouldn't have spent all their gold.
Or if they were smart they would've sold all of their gear for gold just like I and many others have done.
Also as long as voting is an option, no one has a bigger advantage than anyone else, we all get gold somehow.
I could go on more about this but I have places to be, everyone just stop worrying and get back to having fun!