Ken Clarke: [white, rich] politicians have little idea how to solve inequality [while still sending their kids to Eton and enjoying caviar]pic.twitter.com/3Vp9BWInii
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(In other words, it’s not that they don’t know how to; it’s against the interests of their wallets to do so.)
I guess you're suggesting that rich people in power act against their own interests. Gripped by addiction, perhaps?
By immediate-term selfishness instead of enlightened self interest. Nick Hanauer seems to get it (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014 …)
I guess the problem is that we've built a system in which owning capital is an easier, surer way to make money than actually working.
Research suggests that the rich benefit from a more equitable society. They are less depressed, more secure, happier.
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