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And if you do happen to be on the Forbes 400 list, talking about income distribution, and inevitably its cousin, income redistribution, can be downright threatening.
So we're living in the age of surging income inequality, especially at the top.
One set of causes is political: lower taxes, deregulation, particularly of financial services, privatization, weaker legal protections for trade unions, all of these have contributed to more and more income going to the very, very top.
But if crony capitalism is, intellectually at least, the easy part of the problem, things get trickier when you look at the economic drivers of surging income inequality.
Once you have the tremendous economic power that we're seeing at the very, very top of the income distribution and the political power that inevitably entails, it becomes tempting as well to start trying to change the rules of the game in your own favor.
As income inequality increases, social mobility decreases.
There's something that it feels like to drink beer which is not what it feels like to do your income tax or listen to music, and this qualitative feel automatically generates a third feature, namely, conscious states are by definition subjective in the sense that they only exist as experienced by some human or animal subject, some self that experiences them.
Second, China has been able to meaningfully improve its income inequality without changing the political construct.
However, these two countries have the identical GINI Coefficient, which is a measure of income equality.
Perhaps what is more disturbing is that China's income equality has been improving in recent times, whereas that of the United States has been declining.
In a recent study, the evidence has shown that income is the greatest determinant of how long a democracy can last.
The study found that if your per capita income is about 1,000 dollars a year, your democracy will last about eight and a half years.
If your per capita income is between 2,000 and 4,000 dollars per year, then you're likely to only get 33 years of democracy.
And only if your per capita income is above 6,000 dollars a year will you have democracy come hell or high water.
When I was growing up in the '70s, the typical American spent one tenth of their income, American family, on transportation.
Since then, we've doubled the number of roads in America, and we now spend one fifth of our income on transportation.
The economist Joe Cortright did the math and he found out that those four miles plus those 11 minutes adds up to fully three and a half percent of all income earned in the region.
They all tell me that we can build cities that can grow, but grow in a way that reflects the diverse residents that live in those cities; grow in a way that can accommodate all income groups, all colors, creeds, genders.
We cannot get medicine to them reliably, they cannot get critical supplies, and they cannot get their goods to market in order to create a sustainable income.
Or bicycles: For example, in Amsterdam, more than 30 percent of the population uses bicycles, despite the fact that the Netherlands has a higher income per capita than the United States.
However, there is a problem with that, that market economy needs inequality of income in order to work.
In the U.S. alone, the industrial Internet could raise average income by 25 to 40 percent over the next 15 years, boosting growth to rates we haven't seen in a long time, and adding between 10 and 15 trillion dollars to global GDP.
Regardless of your income level, you want the most beautiful, the best product that there is.
Here I've plotted for you the mean household income received by each fifth and top five percent of the population over the last 20 years.
In 1993, the differences between the different quintiles of the population, in terms of income, are fairly egregious.
With a passionate and committed team and the tremendous support of our partners, we grew dramatically, today, serving 20,000 small farmers, enabling them to double their yields and triple their net income relative to their peers.
In 1970, governments set themselves a target to increase overseas aid payments to 0.7 percent of their national income.
They bought fixed income securities, bonds.
Governments have been aiming to get aid to 0.7 percent for years, so let's set the limit at half of that, 0.35 percent of their income.
So it would work like this: If in a given year the government gave 0.2 percent of its income to overseas aid, the central bank would simply top it up with a further 0.2 percent.
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