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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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Your model of poverty is incredibly bad if you think that being poor today is *better* than being a king in the past.

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Obviously there's a level of poverty that's probably worse than being a king in the past, especially in third-world countries. But we have access to a huge variety of food, our kids actually survive out of infancy now. Poor people still have refrigerators!

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Your original claim implies that this should make us not concerned about the the well-being of the poorest 10% today, though. Which I think is untrue — there are still tons of real injustices (prison system etc) that afflict those people. Which is what “inequality” talk targets.

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I definitely don't mean that we should be unconcerned about the wellbeing of the poorest 10% or anybody. I just mean that *inequality in itself does not seem inherently bad*.

9:24 PM · Apr 26, 2019

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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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