In his new book, Joseph Stiglitz outlines a sweeping plan to correct economic inequality http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/stiglitz-heres-how-to-fix-inequality/413761/ … #choices
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@paulg@StartupLJackson And yet people like Mitt Romney shouldn't have had a 17% tax rate while I had 40%. -
@gbildson@paulg@StartupLJackson echoing@timoreilly but it's a red herring of a red herring Capital gains is gamed to make the rich richer -
@gbildson@paulg@StartupLJackson@timoreilly nobody is saying «cut down the rich» merely «don't hand them everything on a platter for free»
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@paulg The book is about *correcting* inequality, thus bringing it to a better gini coefficient, not eradicating it. No one said “equality”.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@StartupLJackson I think you are confusing poverty with standard of living.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@paulg@startupljackson Paul, a long tail of hyper-rich individuals does not prevent poverty-reduction policies from decreasing inequality. -
Economists probably say they're fixing inequality instead of reducing poverty because nobody likes hearing they're country is impoverished.
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@brianru Can we please stop hating on people because of terminology and instead have a productive conversation? -
@brianru Reducing poverty does not require fixing inequality. Blaming poverty on inequality is easy and popular. -
@brianru Fixing poverty by fixing inequality is possible but politically impossible - the Robin Hood strategy is a mirage. -
@brianru Proposals to fix poverty without fixing inequality will not win anyone an election.
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@paulg@StartupLJackson no. They had infinite inequality. They either had food or they didn'tThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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