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I feel like everyone is inadvertently proving PG right (even though I think he's kinda wrong). His whole point is that "inequality" is too vague and broad of a
by shockzzz 11y ago
I feel like everyone is inadvertently proving PG right (even though I think he's kinda wrong). His whole point is that "inequality" is too vague and broad of a term, and that we should speak specifically to things like poverty and tax evasion.
- SideburnsOfDoom 11y agoYes, but I feel that the "startup inequality" that PG wants to talk about is the outlier. The "Wall street inequality", what PG calls "those specific abuses", is 90% of the real story of today, and so you might as well call that "regular inequality" or leave off the prefix entirely. i.e. > Some of that is certainly Silicon Valley executives. But it's the financial professionals that this conversation is really about. ... The inequality debate is driven by the belief that those kinds of abuses are disparate and widespread.
- shockzzz 11y ago100% with you there. Amongst people who know what they're talking about, this is completely accurate. But I don't think most people understand "Occupy Wall Street" as being distinguishable from the Google protests, as Ezra suggests. Most people aren't highly specific about the difference between Uber's valuation and Subprime Mortgage Lending (including the media).