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." - 1 more reply
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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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Sometimes I genuinely wonder how many of these people actually think Thanos is the good guy.
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It's incredible the kind of legs an un-examined and bad premise has on it.
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has anybody let these guys know what happens to the poor in a pandemic
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Hoping for a global depression to own the neolibs
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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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Broken Window Fallacy.
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