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I more or less agree with everything you said, which is why I think the really salient question is whether income inequality is actually a driver of technologic
by dionidium 14y ago
I more or less agree with everything you said, which is why I think the really salient question is whether income inequality is actually a driver of technological progress. Everybody loses in a more "fair" but ultimately less prosperous society.
- roc 14y agoIt's trivially true that an unequal-but-growing economy is better than a more-equal-but-shrinking one. But that's neither here nor there. No-one's advocating radical changes. No-one's saying we should carve up the golden goose because eggs were being 'unfairly' distributed. It's another hallmark of bad faith arguments to respond to a disagreement-in-degrees as if the other side were advocating extreme positions. No-one's seizing the means of production here.