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How can we account for the fact that until World War I, wealth inequality was so high and, if anything, was rising to even higher levels, and how can we think about the future?
If people were accumulating wealth only for life cycle reasons, you know, to be able to consume when they are old, then the level of wealth inequality should be more or less in line with the level of income inequality.
But it will be very difficult to explain why you have so much more wealth inequality than income inequality with a pure life cycle model, so you need a story where people also care about wealth accumulation for other reasons.
The important point is that, in any such model, for a given variance of such shocks, the equilibrium level of wealth inequality will be a steeply rising function of r minus g.
BG: One of the arguments against your point of view is that economic inequality is not only a feature of capitalism but is actually one of its engines.
So we take measures to lower inequality, and at the same time we lower growth, potentially.
TP: Yeah, I think inequality is not a problem per se.
I think inequality up to a point can actually be useful for innovation and growth.
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.
And also, extreme inequality can be bad for our democratic institutions if it creates very unequal access to political voice, and the influence of private money in U.S. politics, I think, is a matter of concern right now.
Let me say that if I was to rewrite the book today, I would actually conclude that the rise in wealth inequality, particularly in the United States, has been actually higher than what I report in my book.
And this needs to change, because when it does, not only will people re-engage with the structures of representation, but also complement these structures with direct, effective, and collective decision making, decision making of the kind that attacks inequality by its very inclusive nature, decision making of the kind that can change our cities into better places for us to live.
I mean, there are many other megarisks that are going to define fragility in our time, not least income inequality, poverty, climate change, impunity.
Catadores emerged from social inequality, unemployment, and the abundance of solid waste from the deficiency of the waste collection system.
But what I hadn't considered was that inequality exists in prison, too.
If you have more consideration for others, you will make sure that you remedy inequality, that you bring some kind of well-being within society, in education, at the workplace.
Sustainable harmony means now we will reduce inequality.
In contrast, three years after Occupy sparked that global conversation about inequality, the policies that fueled it are still in place.
Inequality is stifling human growth and potential and economies.
And my reporting around the country tells me the problem is grimmer than simple inequality.
So we wanted to think about what is the blind tasting version for thinking about inequality?
So we started looking at inequality, and we did some large-scale surveys around the U.S. and other countries.
So we asked two questions: Do people know what kind of level of inequality we have?
And then, what level of inequality do we want to have?
And across all of those things, what we learned was that people don't like inequality of wealth, but there's other things where inequality, which is an outcome of wealth, is even more aversive to them: for example, inequality in health or education.
How do we get people to think differently about inequality and the consequences of inequality in terms of health, education, jealousy, crime rate, and so on?
What they actually do is they exacerbate income inequality, and that's not a good thing.
Again, income inequality is not a good thing.
On the horizontal axis is income inequality.
The further to the right you go, the greater the income inequality.
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