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Anyone else's brain about to explode when reading these "responses" to things that PG never actually said. All he said was that inequality isn't the problem pe
by joelrunyon 11y ago
Anyone else's brain about to explode when reading these "responses" to things that PG never actually said.
All he said was that inequality isn't the problem per-se. It's the symptom of a bunch of other issues and if you just try to address equality on it's own, you're going to completely miss the underlying causes.
- david927 11y agoI find your assessment of what he said to be generous, but even in that, he's still a multi-millionaire saying, "Sure, let's fight poverty but not in a way that affects that the rich (people like me) are getting richer." If he was half as clever as you're trying to make him, he would have just focused on the "underlying causes" and left the rest alone.
- joelrunyon 11y agoNo - he's asking people to correctly identify the problem first.
- david927 11y agoBut he never correctly identifies the problem; he doesn't spend any time on the problem. He simply shoos us away from inequality, which given his income bracket smacks of conflict-of-interest.
- joelrunyon 11y agoHe can be corrective without having to identify it himself. Just because he explains that something isn't the problem, doesn't mean he's obligated to identify all the root causes himself. He's simply pointing out a flaw in people's logical processes.
- david927 11y agoHe can be corrective without having to identify it himself. Can he? Because the last I looked, he has failed so dramatically in whatever he was trying to do that now that not only has he been vilified, lacerated and destroyed in the press -- but inequality is even more on the radar than it was before.