The effect of income equality on societies...

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richardhutnik said:

HappySqurriel said:
The debate on inequality is (often) formed incorrectly in order to promote the redistribution of wealth, when the real question about inequality is whether there are structural discrimination preventing people from making decisions that will lead to them earning more money. If there is no structural discrimination than the redistribution of wealth is punishing a successful individual for making good decisions that lead to their success to reward other individuals who made poor decisions that led to their failure; in contrast, if there is structural discrimination why wouldn't you address that rather than simply trying to gloss over the problem through the redistribution of wealth?

In order to discuss the issue, and have meaningful action be determined to address it, it has to be recognized as both existing and a problem.  It is true that an action to address an issue can be merely treating symptoms, rather than causes.

As it is now there is both debates over whether or not it exists at all, and is a problem.  Consider talk by Mitt Romney for example, who calls it merely envy:

http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/12/news/economy/romney_envy/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

I'd think the first step to solving a problem would be to actually suggest it is a problem.

Nothing in the video actually establishes it as a problem, because it's all generally anyone who's ever taken a class in research methods could tear down pretty eaisly... not even in a "causation vs correlation" way.  (Though it also fails in that regard.)

Really, i'm not sure what's happened to you the last few months...  you used to better then buying into overtly obvious propganda.

Though if you want to figure out how to address icnome inequality.  There isn't really a good way, since in general the gini coefficent gap in the US has been caused by the growth in Dual income familys, women gaining equality and single parent families... Rich individuals haven't been getting richer.

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In general what happened was, women started making more money, which meant that when a Man and Woman got married and people started marrying more "Within there class."

This is espiecally true when you consider the fact that most men would STILL be upset if their wife made more then them.  Meaning that woman making $50,000 a year is far more likely to marry a man making 50K + then the man who would of had that job 10 years ago would have.

Clearly nobody actually wants women to be treated as unfairly as they used to be in the workplace anymore.  Furthermore, this SHOULD be a self correcting problem.  It will rise more as women continue to make more money.  (Some studies suggest that women under 30 actually do BETTER on average then their male counterparts at this point.)

However, eventually men will stop being douchebags and not care if their wives are the breadwinners marrying SHOULD become more like it was in 1994, and everything should fall back down to slightly above 1994 levels.

It still staying somewhat over it, likely do to single parents.