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The problem in this discourse is that certain people like to call everything "inequality" whether they're talking about "some people can't pay bills" or "some p
by civilized 5y ago
The problem in this discourse is that certain people like to call everything "inequality" whether they're talking about "some people can't pay bills" or "some people make more money than others".
We might want to tolerate the latter but reduce the former. But if we call them all the same thing, we can't think clearly or formulate such nuanced policy, as Orwell noted.
- js8 5y agoThat's a false dichotomy, because there is literally no country on Earth where inequality would only mean the latter. Inequal system, if free enough, always devolves into something which drowns at least someone.
- civilized 5y agoBy that standard, no nation is equal "enough", and we should go back to being hunter gatherer tribes where the guy who killed the mammoth gets murdered if he gets too big for his britches. (And FWIW, that isn't what "false dichotomy" means.)