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So, when we solve income inequality, who gets to live where? (Original Post) Recursion Nov 2019 OP
The idea is to reduce the historically high Voltaire2 Nov 2019 #1
I do. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2019 #2
:) What're you up to, Recursion? No income inequality solution Hortensis Nov 2019 #3
Solving inequality is not about making sure there are no rich people... GulfCoast66 Nov 2019 #4
Who told you we're solving Income Inequality? maxsolomon Nov 2019 #5

Voltaire2

(13,017 posts)
1. The idea is to reduce the historically high
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 03:27 PM
Nov 2019

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?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. :) What're you up to, Recursion? No income inequality solution
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 03:34 PM
Nov 2019

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)
4. Solving inequality is not about making sure there are no rich people...
Wed Nov 6, 2019, 03:42 PM
Nov 2019

It about making sure there are no desperately poor people.

You don’t have to do the first to accomplish the second.

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