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by gadders 3910 days ago
For mounting inequality, it depends who you ask and where. It's not increased in the UK for instance: http://blogs.new.spectator.co.uk/2015/09/stiglitz-piketty-je...

Of course, this is from a right-wing magazine, so they could just be making it up to appease their owners or something.

And it also depends on the definition of poverty. Is it absolute or relative? As soon as you start talking about relative poverty, you are effectively arguing for wealth redistribution.

//EDIT: swapped poverty in for inequality above//
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RobertoG 3910 days ago
I don't want to be negative but the article in the spectator dismiss the Gini index (that I'm sure has its problems) using a tweet as its source.

Just to weight in with an alternative view: http://mainlymacro.blogspot.fr/2014/11/redistribution-under-...

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gadders 3910 days ago
To be fair, it was a tweet by Nassim Taleb.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3910 days ago
> To be fair, it was a tweet by Nassim Taleb.

Do you think that's a positive recommendation? Because it's not clear and I don't.

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gadders 3909 days ago
I think "a tweet from Nassim Taleb" carries more weight than a tweet from some random person off the internet. He does at least understand finance and economics.
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SideburnsOfDoom 3908 days ago
> I think "a tweet from Nassim Taleb" carries more weight than a tweet from some random person off the internet.

I used to follow him on twitter for a while, and I'm not convinced of that.

His first book was a well-thought out contrarian polemic. His tweets struck me as off-the-cuff random contrarian outbursts.

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