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To: bentway who wrote (759944)	12/28/2013 2:23:48 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574582

This has to be one of the most rambling, uncoordinated comments I've ever seen on inequality: "There is a strong connection between the two, Hari, for the simple reason that, as the income ladder lengthens, because people at the top are that much further away from the middle people at the middle, and the people at the middle are far away from people at the bottom, as that ladder elongates, it's harder and harder to get anywhere on the ladder if you start climbing. Even if you climb that ladder at the same rate of upward mobility that we had in this country 30 or 40 years ago, which we don't have, it would still be harder to get anywhere. Plus, we have a lot of middle rungs of that ladder now disappearing, because all those manufacturing jobs that used to be unionized and paid pretty good wages, even though a lot of education wasn't needed, those rungs of the ladder are now gone." So, the apparent problem is that if a poor person can't get much closer to being a wealthy person, then inequality is a problem. That is just plain stupid. There are always going to be billionaires, no matter what, that the poor person can never get close to. So, he should just quit climbing the ladder? This is the fucking ignorant mentality that the left promotes and it is not helpful for the poor. These people are no further away from Zuckerberg, in practical terms, than they are from Robert Reich.