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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, when we solve income inequality, who gets to live where?
There are 2 million housing units in Manhattan, and more than 2 million people who want to live in Manhattan.
Who gets to live in those units?
Voltaire2
(13,017 posts)levels of inequality created over the last 40 years, not impose absolute equality.
But you know that, so what point were you actually trying to make?
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Got many other burning questions you need answered?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)involves drawing lots for who gets the penthouses. I imagine it does involve making a lot of families decide they can't afford the taxes on a $3M pied a terre that mostly goes unused or the maintenance on a giant sinkhole of a Long Island estate. We've been here before, after all.
But first and mostly it's about restoring the kind of wages and income-equivalents (benefits) that full-time workers in a very wealthy nation of, by and for the people should reasonably be earning as their share of production -- what's good for the people is good for the nation, to paraphrase a very smart man from when we were here before.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)It about making sure there are no desperately poor people.
You dont have to do the first to accomplish the second.
maxsolomon
(33,310 posts)You know we live in America, right?