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This is no small matter: Yale and other American universities receive millions of federal dollars annually – money that would be jeopardized if the university was found to tolerate an unequal learning environment.
Other peoples and countries find themselves on an unequal footing in this digital age, so the problem of piracy is not likely to disappear.
The multiplicity of interlocutors inevitably creates a multiplicity of water systems with vastly unequal levels of efficiency.
Today, scientific relations between developed and developing countries are unequal; important genetic discoveries based on Third World diseases provide neither appropriate credit to local scientists nor fair returns to the populations that made them possible.
Starting positions are unequal and incentive structures are imperfect.
Moreover, the French mapping effort took place just a decade after Siam ceded a clutch of territories – much of today’s western Cambodia – to France, which was then perched above Indochina as the colonial master At that time, a vulnerable Siam was compelled to sign a host of unequal treaties with European powers in exchange for maintaining its independence.
For example, Carrie Gracie recently resigned as the BBC’s China editor in protest against unequal pay between male and female editors, shaming six top male employees to agree to substantial wage cuts.
The most interesting remaining argument for unequal treatment relates to activities for which there is a premium on physical qualities, as in sport.
Not surprisingly, one of the last remaining bastions of unequal pay today is in competitive sport, which is a ritualized form of warfare.
The question is whether pay ought to be equal in an area in which performance is unequal “by nature.”
In tennis, the principle of equal pay for unequal performance is accepted for grand slam events, but not for many others.
Achieving the SDGs – and, thus, tackling the climate crisis – will require us to stand up to the vested political, business, and economic interests that seek to maintain our current unequal order.
And, although “the report had a huge impact on political thought in the United Kingdom and overseas” – leading the OECD and the World Health Organization to assess 13 countries’ unequal health outcomes – this did not extend to “UK government policy.”
Both China and the United States are dramatically unequal societies – and are becoming more so.
That might make very unequal societies more stable than many fear.
Beyond a certain point, unequal outcomes inevitably fuel greater inequality of opportunity; and extreme inequality of either outcomes or opportunity can undermine the idea that we should all be equal as citizens, if not in material standard of living.
All new technologies create opportunities, but free markets will distribute the fruits of some new technologies in dramatically unequal ways.
The ongoing euro crisis clearly demonstrates the problems that a union of unequal partners can face.
Although labor shortages have helped push up ordinary workers’ wages, the existing, highly unequal income distribution cannot be altered spontaneously.
Indeed, the north and south have struggled to overcome cultural differences and unequal economic conditions, preventing them from viewing the situation from each other’s perspective.
This is because the policies they have pursued have integrated their economies so completely into global trade and finance, on unequal terms.
Like recent reports about many Americans’ deteriorating health, this difference in life expectancy seems to reflect not just income and wealth inequality, but also unequal access to health care.
If one regards impartiality and attention to consequences as essential to morality, one could imagine countries accepting the morality of unequal possession of nuclear weapons if certain conditions were met.
But one thing is certain: it won’t stop until all Dominicans who value democracy and the rule of law stand alongside their fellow citizens and declare that the time for unequal treatment is over.
The region is both more democratic and more unequal than it was ten years ago.
Florida is a much more materially unequal society than Cuba.
An unequal society cannot help but be an unjust society.
No one can deny that the distribution of income is scandalously unequal in Latin America.
Put differently: if a society’s initial playing field is very uneven, that society will remain quite unequal even after a sizeable fiscal redistribution.
Nonetheless, several features of current growth patterns stand out: excess productive capacity, persistent high leverage, declining labor content in goods-and-services production, and an increasingly unequal distribution of income both between labor and capital, and across labor-income segments, with their differential savings rates.
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