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> that inequality is not an unintended result I haven't seen him argue that rising inequality is "intentional" - no one sat down and said "Hey, let's build a
by jaibot 12y ago
> that inequality is not an unintended result
I haven't seen him argue that rising inequality is "intentional" - no one sat down and said "Hey, let's build a system that widens inequality indefinitely". For most of the twentieth century, people thought that inequality was going to keep shrinking, and most everyone was fine with it.
The r>g problem looks like a real problem, but not an engineered one.
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- twoodfin 12y agoDidn't inequality, globally, keep shrinking? I suspect it's still shrinking now, and perhaps at an increasing rate.
- jaibot 12y agoThis is a good point (does anyone have a good source on global GINI?). But I suspect that what we're currently experiencing in the very-developed world is what's expected globally long-term. If global inequality is shrinking, it's probably down to deploying existing technologies and catch-up growth. When all that's over - when there's no such thing as the "developing" world anymore - at the End of History, r>g.
- vbuterin 12y agohttp://www.quora.com/Has-the-worldwide-GINI-coefficient-increased-or-decreased-over-the-last-50-years http://www.quora.com/Has-the-worldwide-GINI-coefficient-incr... You're completely correct.
- selmnoo 12y agoPerhaps I should have used a better word than "unintended". Sadly I'm out of the editing window for that post, so I can't really change it. Sorry about that.