Given the average income of those below the poverty level stays the same, you'd rather press a magic button that would ______ income inequality?
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This question's indeterminate. How is it decreasing inequality - is it redistributing income among the not-poor? Or decreasing income among the not-poor? Or separately redistributing income within the group of poor people and redistributing within the group of not-poor people?
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It is not. If you can’t change the income of the bottom earners, the only way to increase inequality is by raising the income of everybody else
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Would love to see this exact same question phrased as “purchasing power” instead of income.
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How does the button to increase inequality work? Does it randomly drop money into a few people's pockets or does it reward specifically the people who are doing socially beneficial things?
Without knowing this, the question is meaningless: the *reasons* for inequality matter.
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Without hurting the poor, that must mean you increase the wealth of the rich from nowhere, which can only be a good thing.
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most people hit increase before they read the whole thing, I know im not the only one