> willfully ignore the complexities surrounding virtually every issue we face today. There are complexities, but every issue can be simplified. I think economi

> willfully ignore the complexities surrounding virtually every issue we face today. There are complexities, but every issue can be simplified. I think economic inequality can be boiled down to a few key issues: 1. The Imperial War Machine: Iraq/Iraq II/Libya/et al -- very expensive, no economic return for anyone but the military-industrial complex [0] 2. Economic warfare on Mexico/et al [1] in the 1980's -> Economic Refugees 3. Free Trade -> more economic refugees (NAFTA put Mexican subsistence farmers [2] in direct competition with mechanized agriculture) 4. Cost-disease: medical-industrial complex edition 5. Concentration of wealth -> investors seeking returns for their investments. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-says-the-us-wasted-trillions-on-warfare-instead-of-investing-in-infrastructure.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsistence_agriculture