Though you mean this as a joke, an asteroid uses the only proven strategy for decreasing wealth inequality to near zero — to make everyone equally poor.
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If a global supply chain disaster made the poorest half 10% poorer & the wealthiest half 50% poorer, the greatest tragedies would still befall the poor. In the context Harold proposes, measuring wealth distribution is a great example of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes." - Show replies
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It's incredible the kind of legs an un-examined and bad premise has on it.
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Markets going up isn't intrinsically in the public interest. In fact, the null hypothesis is that it is bad in the same manner as that in which the price of any other good going up is bad.
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Securities aren’t goods
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No need. In The Great Leveler
@WalterScheidel finds war, disasters and plague are great to reduce inequalityThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Hoping for a global depression to own the neolibs
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has anybody let these guys know what happens to the poor in a pandemic
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Broken Window Fallacy.
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Careful. If the far left hears, they may try to defund NEO search programs.
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