Would We Be Better Off Financially With Less Inequality?

marthature
3 min readApr 17, 2024

It’s not a moral question. It’s an economic question.

Income inequality. It’s been studied, analyzed, punditized, pontificated upon for generations, across geopolitical boundaries, party lines, religious persuasions. But it’s not an issue of morality, despite the fact that decent, normal people understand the unfairness of serfdom, slavery, and having had their careers, jobs, and communities destroyed by capitalism. Even monkeys understand unfairness.

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Award-winning wildlife and nature photographer (https://mttamalpaisphotos.com), retired from California PUC, EPA, NOAA. Recovering journalist.