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> How is this a "problem"? "[a] Stanford professor posits that throughout history, economic inequality has only been rectified by one of the 'Four Horsemen of
by nicoffeine 6y ago
> How is this a "problem"?
"[a] Stanford professor posits that throughout history, economic inequality has only been rectified by one of the 'Four Horsemen of Leveling': warfare, revolution, state collapse and plague."[1]
You can hang on to imaginative phrases like "inequality of opportunity" or an economy that reliably delivers food. I think most people are going to go with the second option.
[1] https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/can-inequality-only-be-fixed-by-war-revolution-or-plague https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/can-inequal...
- sjg007 6y agoAnd here were are in the midst of a plague and it hasn't helped! I was hoping we'd get UBI out of it!