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Poverty
How inequality creates not just envy, but political instability, and other problems.
A certain amount of inequality may be be good as it gives people reasons to believe that hard work can be rewarded by wealth; if everyone was merely entitled to the same resources, rights, privileges, people might be de-incentivised to develop in ways that lead to real growith. However, how much inequality should be tolerated? At what point does inequality become so extreme as to become morally unjust?
Published on Jan 19, 2015
Journalist Jessica Bruder explains the American retirement crisis, more people living in vans across America, Nickled and Dimed meets On the Road, the new low income labor force, where mobile workers end working, the collapse of American retirement security and the difficulty of political organizing. From the 10/28/14 episode of The Majority Report. You can read the article below:
Philosopher John Rawls on Inequality and Poverty
An Idiot’s Guide to Inequality by Nicholas Kristof