I liked the inequality debate more when it was "What can we do about poverty?"
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Existence of poverty is a problem; existence of wealth is not. Inequality inevitably casts rich people as the problem.
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However, at the risk of commuting politics on Twitter, we talk about inequality because it motivates middle class more than poverty does.
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"Wall Street is stealing my retirement! Stick it to them!" plays better in Peoria than "Welfare and free healthcare for poor people."
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Continuing back to software: the best thing software produced for poverty, by a factor of 10^5, was the smartphone. It's life changing.
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To the extent startup community has responsibility on poverty: more things like smartphones, more opportunities for people to get a rung out
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This is complicated by how high the bar is for e.g. an office manager position in a startup and by how team probably doesn't realize that.
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(Pick "the most entry level job you can conceive of" if that example rankles. I know office managers typically have degrees. That's point.)
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