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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Jan 2016

    Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version http://paulgraham.com/sim.html 

    2:41 PM - 4 Jan 2016
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      2. Lukas Thoms: wedding expert, single‏ @LukasThoms 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg your argument still supposes people want a Gini coefficient of 0, which no one is proposing. Reducing != eliminating.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @LukasThoms

        @LukasThoms "Nearly all say it is bad if economic inequality increases, and that it would be better if it decreased."

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Lukas Thoms: wedding expert, single‏ @LukasThoms 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Ah ok, on closer read I see you've avoided that this time. Too much of the longer version stuck in my head!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Lukas Thoms: wedding expert, single‏ @LukasThoms 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @LukasThoms

        @paulg Speaking as a wealth-seeking entrepreneur, I think it's possible to reduce the extreme upside and still not affect our incentives.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @LukasThoms

        @LukasThoms Yes, probably. I advocated that in the original: "let's attack poverty, and if necessary damage wealth in the process."

        0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      7. End of conversation
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      2. Elizabeth Dwyer‏ @ElizDwyer 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Simplified version's still a weird defense of startups against someone, somewhere, who wants to eliminate them. No one argues that.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @ElizDwyer

        @ElizDwyer Few *consciously* do. But anyone against great variations in wealth is implicitly against startups.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Elizabeth Dwyer‏ @ElizDwyer 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Startups are just one thing that can cause an individual/family to hold huge wealth; could say lottery tix too. Inheritance biggest.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Elizabeth Dwyer‏ @ElizDwyer 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @ElizDwyer

        @paulg What people against inequality are against are exploitative wages, disproportionate political influence. Ex. Wal-Mart, Uber.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @ElizDwyer

        @ElizDwyer That's like saying people who are against the integers are against the odd integers.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      7. Elizabeth Dwyer‏ @ElizDwyer 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Exactly. Critical responses all saying we're not against the integers. We're against actions 'too much' inequality tends to engender.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Elizabeth Dwyer‏ @ElizDwyer 5 Jan 2016
        Replying to @ElizDwyer

        @paulg So, 2 ways to fix it: reduce inequality &/or reduce bad results. Since you're someone w/power, curious to read an essay on the latter

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. End of conversation
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      2. Fareed Mosavat‏ @far33d 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg worth noting that you ignore the results of inequality, which are also bad (high variability in political power, for instance)

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @far33d

        @far33d I explicitly refer to this type of problem in the original essay: http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html#f7n 

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Fareed Mosavat‏ @far33d 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg removing money from politics / other influence will be the most difficult of these to eradicate.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Mike Amundsen‏ @mamund 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg even shorter version: "This thing i produce a lot of; you can't attack that." KTHXBYE @iamwil

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. Phil Haussler‏ @philhaussler 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @mamund

        @mamund "Since economic inequality per se is not bad, we should not attack it. Instead we should attack the bad things that cause it."

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Mike Amundsen‏ @mamund 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @philhaussler

        @philhaussler "since hydrochloric acid itelf is not bad", "since sunlight itself is not bad," ... this is just another strawman. weak sauce.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Phil Haussler‏ @philhaussler 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @mamund

        @mamund My point: he didn't say what you said he said. Possible to disagree without misrepresenting. Also, let's not attack sunlight or HCl.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Mike Amundsen‏ @mamund 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @philhaussler

        @philhaussler you've read his inertial piece, right: http://b.mamund.com/1OIKqyD  "I've become an expert on how to increase economic inequality"

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Mike Amundsen‏ @mamund 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @mamund

        @philhaussler his "being hunted" metaphor in p4 makes it clear to me that discussions about "eliminating inequality" is not to be tolerated.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Mike Amundsen‏ @mamund 4 Jan 2016
        Replying to @mamund

        @philhaussler "attack", "they want to kill me" do a disservice to @paulg's POV as they provoke emotional responses, not thoughtful replies.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. End of conversation

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