{"id":3218,"date":"2013-12-14T21:30:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T21:30:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-14T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T21:30:13","slug":"richard-wilkinson-on-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/12\/14\/richard-wilkinson-on-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Wilkinson on Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RichardHere is a great video about income inequality that you really must watch. I’ll have more to say about it tomorrow and on into the future. This is because I’m getting less and less interested in the news of the day and more and more interested in talking about those few things that really matter to me in terms of politics. I even have a few ideas of how some of these problems can be addressed. Of course, the number one issue that will stop us from solving any problems is if the poorer classes continue to vote so infrequently. But apart from that the most important issue is income inequality.<\/p>\n

This video is from a TED Talk<\/i>, which is interesting because in general, the TED folk don’t like to talk about things that make rich people uncomfortable. This talk is by Richard G Wilkinson. The only thing I have to add to what he has to say is just that you should notice that no matter what he talks about the United States is always the worst. According to conservatives, this is the best country in the world. What they mean is that this is the best country in the world if you are rich<\/i>. And I don’t doubt that for a minute. But I’m not rich. And if you’re reading this, you’re not rich. So this is not the best country in the world. In the most important ways, this is the worst<\/i> country of the advanced world. That’s something to think about very carefully, especially if you are a liberal. How did we allow this?<\/p>\n