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I'm still unconvinced that many of our problems couldn't be solved with some innovative tax solutions. I see no reason that this tech revolution should be any different than any other in the past (i.e. it increases economic opportunity for the vast majority of people over time), but 4,000 Uber employees making boku bucks while 2,000,000 Uber drivers starve is an invented problem, and thus can be solved by invented solutions. Wealth is filtering upwards for a variety of reasons, but the onle thing all of those reasons have in common is that the law currently allows or even encourages it. Laws aren't immutable. What we need more than anything is bold, new political leadership (on BOTH sides; as crazy as GOPers are, Dems are ossified dinosaurs who need to go away fast).