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by lend000 1140 days ago
How can you be so sure? That's what it literally means. The onus is on them to better understand and convey their own position, if that is in fact their position.
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Most people mean that the gini coefficient is too high, not that it should be zero. Income/wealth inequality is a floating point scale somewhere in the range of 0..1 and neither extreme is likely to be possible or optimum.

But that is a fucking mouthful which is why normal humans just say things like 'wealth inequality is bad' -- until the internet's favorite pedantic muppets show up in the comments demanding clarification.

One, because it’s absurd, so in making this assumption, you are painting them as absurd.

Two, because they are willing to tell you if you spend some time talking to them.