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wasoxygen  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Everyone in America is More Broke Than You Think - What About You, Hubski?

    you're putting way too much thought into this

Heh, it's hard for me to see this as a criticism. I am pretty good about ignoring who is talking and how they are talking in order to focus on the ideas. This is an idea that everyone, from the White House to the Ivy League, talks about.

It may be a silly article, but it's an opportunity for me to learn why people believe that inequality (or "wealth diversity" in my snarky jargon) is bad. I was laughing out loud listening to a podcast on the subject yesterday. The guest argued that Academy Award winners live longer than runners-up, showing the harm of unequal status. Also, Cubans claim to live a little longer than U.S. residents, and Cuba has a lower Gini coefficient; Q.E.D. The host points out that a lot of Cubans flee Cuba to get to the land of inequality.