[mempko]

There is no such thing as a root cause. The economy is a dynamic system under a legal framework which governs the way it works. A lot of that legal framework is designed to punish the poor and punish minorities which makes them poor. It's doubly troubling and to tackle inequality requires tackling the legal and social framework our economy exists in which happens to have institutional racism and sexism.

In other words, does racism and gender create the income inequality we see across the board? No, but is getting rid of racism and gender inequality required to diminish income inequality? Yes.

[reallydude]

> getting rid of racism and gender inequality

You can't get rid of racial and gender inequality, because we're inherently inequal to each other AND between the genders. It's in our DNA for the foreseeable future. We can diminish and mute it, at best. Diminishing returns has set in, while we ignore the more impactful issues.

[mempko]

this is literally the definition of racism and sexism.

[xiphias2]

,,Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another''

I like this definition.

People can be different, still having the same rights. They don't have to be ordered to have an equality operation defined on them.

[mempko]

What are you worried about if they are considered equal?