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Revolts are said to be inevitable is inequality isn't addressed. This is why Picketty and other inequality alarmists call for more policy to mitigate growing inequality. But as we know, inequality isn't new and the vast majority of countries contain high levels of inequality, yet disparities persist, and there aren't much signs of potential revolts.
Revolts are said to be inevitable is inequality isn't addressed. This is why Picketty and other inequality alarmists call for more policy to mitigate growing inequality. But as we know, inequality isn't new and the vast majority of countries contain high levels of inequality, yet disparities persist, and there aren't much signs of potential revolts.
Revolts are said to be inevitable is inequality isn't addressed. This is why Picketty and other inequality alarmists call for more policy to mitigate growing inequality. But as we know, inequality isn't new and the vast majority of countries contain high levels of inequality, yet disparities persist, and there aren't much signs of potential revolts.
The poor masses aren't the ones you have to worry about....The Wealthy will induce the middle classes to wipe out the poor so there won't be any one left to cry about your supposed inequality...
Well, there's never just one reason for a revolt. But economic inequality, of some kind, is usually a part of it.
With the US revolution, there was an aspect of economic inequality. It's not so much that colonial Americans were poor, but they had no real ability to consistently influence how they are taxed. The founding fathers, being enlightened men, felt this went against liberal values, which were growing more and more common in the west. So it was a factor, one of many, in the US revolution just as it was in others. Economic inequality alone probably won't cause a revolt, but often, if economic inequality is severe enough, it's not the only problem a society is having.
The entire mess in the middle east. It has religious overtones, but underlying it all is a lack of economic opportunity for young people in the midst of fabulous wealth of a few. Revolution/civil unrest is the evolutionary endpoint of economic systems that fail to regularly redistribute wealth.
Always led to revolts, civil wars, violence, social unrest, disaster. But not inequality in the sense of rich vs. poor. There were always differences and never absolute "equality", even in communist regimes. But inequality in the sense of separate societies with different "laws". When the poor are left without hope yet the top is always profiting in good and in bad times.
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