Economic Inequality: The Simplified Version
&gt; <i>Attacking economic inequality would be doubly mistaken. It would harm the good as well as the bad causes. But even worse, it would be an ineffective way to attack the bad causes.</i><p>You can&#x27;t say something like this without providing evidence. Why is it ineffective? And why is it bad that it harms the &quot;good&quot; ways too? After all, startups are not good <i>because</i> they cause income inequality. Startups are good for a variety of reasons, and they also happen to cause income inequality, and it&#x27;s reasonable to argue that this particular generation of income inequality is not intrinsically bad. But the value of a startup is not in the income inequality that it generates, and therefore taking steps to reduce income inequality that happen to reduce the income inequality resulting from startups does not actually mean that it&#x27;s &quot;harm[ing] the good&quot;.