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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The biggest inequality is opportunity.
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Why do you see the gap as a problem? It's widening because the rich are getting richer faster than the poor are getting richer, not because the poor are getting poorer. The rich aren't clambering to the top over the backs of the poor, they are pulling the poor up in their wake. Global poverty is falling dramatically as the third world becomes more advanced. A lot of people are making a lot of money on the back of it. Should they stop?
I know it has become cheesy to write it off as "jealousy" but I can't see any other reason why I would be cross that someone else was richer than me.
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I am not cross, jealous, envious, angry, frustrated, or whatever.
There seems to be a fair amount of evidence to show that inequality is destabilising. It is also potentially bad for growth, and ultimately, with wealth comes power. Should the wealthy have more control over peoples lives because they are wealthy?
some interesting information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30878840
Well during those decades of higher upper-band taxation, the gap was closing.
...because the rich all moved to Monaco...Again, either you consider rising equality a problem or you don't.
I assume you mean inequality. It's slightly artificial as those at the bottom of society are far better off than people in the same boat during the 1960s so we're not talking about harsh poverty. The welfare system is also more generous with the government effectively subsiding low wages through the tax system and with benefits like tax credits and access to the NHS. You then have distortions caused by rising house prices the globalisation of big companies meaning CEO pay has risen and the simple fact that automation has meant people now need skills and an education to get a well-paid job. The well-paid low skilled jobs in car plants and factories have gone. Improving equality is not all about taxing the wealthy and redistributing it. It's about access to high quality education and training.
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There is plenty of evidence that higher inequality is worse than less inequality, but I guess that is, "meddling with statistics." But justify it to yourself as much as you want.