So, a few things. First, I don’t feel like the author really addresses the problems people have with inequality. In my mind, the real issue is that the floor is

So, a few things. First, I don’t feel like the author really addresses the problems people have with inequality. In my mind, the real issue is that the floor is too low, which is related to inequality. If one person makes a billion dollars a year and another person can’t make $1000 a year, they’re very unequal. If we could adjust the system so the first person still makes a billion a year but the second person makes $100k/yr, we’ve reduced inequality. But we have huge structural problems in the US that I think could be mitigated by stronger social support programs. I’m a “libertarian socialist” which is a real thing, but it means I don’t really advocate that we use the government to form social programs, but I do strongly advocate that we form social programs through voluntary means. Unfortunately the left ignores the ways we could help each other without the government and the right ignores the fact that some people actually want to pay to help others. I feel as though the right could get a lot of what they want by working with the left to form strong voluntary social support programs that compare favorably to government programs. However, I’m not against using the government to help people. Martin Luther King Jr was a brilliant man who understood the needs of his people, and he advocated both for community power and for government programs. We have real problems in the US that leave millions struggling to feed themselves. Millions our children grow up with poor schooling, which can lead bright people down a dark path. Soon we throw them in prison and forget about them. My issue with billionaires is not that we have billionaires, but that we have billionaires and starving people. We have homeless people who die every winter because it gets too cold. We have enough money to care for them! The wealth is there. But we’ve failed to organize ourselves well enough to use it effectively. I don’t mind billionaires, but I do mind that we have billionaires and destitute people. We have enough wealth to do better. It is not immoral in itself to have billionaires, but I do think a system that produces both billionaires and poverty is wrong. The left wants a solution and all they can think of is taxes. I really wish the right would see that helping build community power would reduce the need for government support. Also someone please break the military industrial complex.