A staggering calculation of the $47T cumulative wealth transfer from the bottom of the income distribution to the top over the past forty years.https://bit.ly/3u9F90p
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Still the best essay on income inequality. Wish people would read it before discussing the subject. http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html
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I’ve read this essay before but only this time did I get why
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More policies that keep whales that are too big from dying.
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Well I've done startups and I've also married a owner of restaurants so I see both sides. Seeing the "Have you been yelped?" shakedown scams from that perspective sure feels like a piece of pie got transferred.
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People also forget that positive gdp per capita growth means they got richer, just grew less than other areas.
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Only if the growth is real and not just nominal!
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Since we all stand on the shoulders of benefits we inherit, billionaires should only exist to the extent that our system has taken care of the least well-off 3/
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Even if everybody got wealthier in absolute terms, relative wealth inequality is still an important social and moral topic to consider.
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Relative inequality is the big one. It's fundamental to a healthy, high-functioning society. Everything goes to shit without that. Why contribute to the group if the group does not also deliver for the individual?https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies?language=en …
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