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by closeparen 1472 days ago
It's funny. Although the modern inequality discourse takes some spiritual influence from Marx's concern about capital's profits, its actual focus seems to be much more on wage disparities between different kinds of workers.

And yes, some workers earning significantly above average are literally, mechanically, the problem of income inequality. Return on capital is mostly not income; taxing unrealized gains is a fringe idea. In the current moment, worker vs. worker inequality (including worker vs. manager) is much more salient than worker vs. owner. Even if you think of yourself as aligned with Marx.