Inequality is interesting. It’s like we just got bored of the topic and moved on without reaching any conclusions.
Remember Piketty? He was popular circa 2 BW.* Came up with that mystic r>g formula that everyone promptly forgot. Also #Occupy
* BW=Before Weirding. 2016 AD=1 AW
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I mean, three of the major Dem candidates for president are backing a policy to give everyone a job. I don’t think people forgot, it just got normalized in a hurry.
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Piketty was never popular. People bought the book but nobody read it.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair
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2016 “settled” the debate - for the next 4-8 years at least. Inequality is a feature, not a bug for the people currently in power.
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You can obviously reshape the degree from high to low.
Governments do it routinely. It’s the basic idea of all taxation
Nobody is shooting for zero inequality except some extreme communists so that’s a straw man
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I've not forgotten or moved on, but in the AW era it's a bit sidelined for many given the ongoing die motion failure of our democracy getting in the way of doing anything about it.
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I re-read this Shirky piece a few times a year, it keeps me sane.
shirky.com/writings/herec
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