Om ojämlikhet

Mark Vandevelde skriver i helgens Financial Times om tre nya böcker om ojämlikhet. Han summerar så här:

Before the crisis, many westerners assumed they lived in equitable societies. Now they know better. But a preoccupation with economic disparities is in its own way a comfortable delusion. Inequality is an alloy of something precious and something base: the excesses of wealth, and the desperation of poverty. Talking about inequality rather than deprivation allows those who are neither rich nor poor to place themselves among the victims. It can seem like a thin alibi.

Our elemental intuitions about fairness should not obscure deep social ills of which the rising take of the richest few may merely be a symptom. Nor should we imagine that responsibility for the moral stain of real, existing poverty lies with the super-rich alone.

Men han inleder med att hänvisa till ett föredrag från TED om ojämlikhet som jag verkligen rekommenderar:

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