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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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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Like obviously everyone agrees with you that if everybody lived at the poverty line that would be worse. But since nobody is actually proposing that, the argument might be a little more complex than what you are describing.
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