Inequality in itself seems mostly fine to me? Like, the poorest people today live lives with access to better stuff than literally kings of the past. That is fucking incredible. But add in people doing better than us and we quickly get not okay
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Like, I could push a magic button to put every person in the world at the poverty level to totally eliminate inequality, but I would consider this a much worse world.
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But I think this is a straw man. Most people who talk about inequality are talking about *problems that disproportionately affect the poor and not the rich*. They are not literally talking about the Gini coefficient. So you’re not steelmanning the argument IMO.
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