Thanks. I tried adjusting the opening of this argument accordingly.
I don’t expect at the time that this point was that contentious within our community. I was naively thinking, “this point is broadly assumed to be true, and would help provide context for my main point.” I also believed/believe that it was true, but I’d agree with you that there are a lot of specific interpretations of it that wouldn’t be true.
It seems like there are interesting debates to be had here of “How should we think about inequality? What aspects of the world are become more or less equal? What measures are the most important?” I think this does get fairly far from my main topic, though at the same time, I’m happy to see that get discussed either here or elsewhere, as long as it could be understood that it’s very arguably a only-partially-related point.
From what I can tell, it very much seems the case that some important measures of inequality are both increasing and very high (the high is probably more important), and also that other important measures might be constant/low/decreasing.
I suspect that commenters here have much stronger feelings about “is inequality increasing?” than they do “does the top 0.1% of the global elite have an incredibly large amount of wealth?”
Thanks. I tried adjusting the opening of this argument accordingly.
I don’t expect at the time that this point was that contentious within our community. I was naively thinking, “this point is broadly assumed to be true, and would help provide context for my main point.” I also believed/believe that it was true, but I’d agree with you that there are a lot of specific interpretations of it that wouldn’t be true.
It seems like there are interesting debates to be had here of “How should we think about inequality? What aspects of the world are become more or less equal? What measures are the most important?” I think this does get fairly far from my main topic, though at the same time, I’m happy to see that get discussed either here or elsewhere, as long as it could be understood that it’s very arguably a only-partially-related point.
From what I can tell, it very much seems the case that some important measures of inequality are both increasing and very high (the high is probably more important), and also that other important measures might be constant/low/decreasing.
I suspect that commenters here have much stronger feelings about “is inequality increasing?” than they do “does the top 0.1% of the global elite have an incredibly large amount of wealth?”