A Response to Paul Graham’s Article on Income Inequality
PGs articles aren&#x27;t wrong - but they are second order, when we need a first order response to a current evil [ before it leads to bloody revolution ]<p>If you look at income distribution its a hockey stick - you really have to slap yourself on the face and realise there is no middle class - what you thought of as professional-middle-class-contributor is actually college-debt-burdened-lower-class - no matter how many years they work they will never pay off their debt, let alone own their own home.<p>People aren&#x27;t asking for &quot;income equality&quot; they are asking for some level of humanity and democracy to be restored to our version of Capitalism, to strengthen that capitalism.<p>So, just as &quot;All Lives Matter&quot; is not a good response to the &quot;Black Lives Matter&quot; movement, its not useful to discuss &quot;income inequality is not intrinsically a bad thing&quot; when we are in a time when the lower class are basically slaves and the middle class has been in steady decline - your _only_ chance to have security is to win a lottery [ the Startup or the PowerBall variety ]<p>So, what needs to be talked about is rather : how to take money out of politics, how to get poor people out of the ghetto, how to stop young black people from being shot by police on a weekly basis, how to bring back a reasonable level of tax on the super wealthy, and how to stop large companies from getting subsidies to pollute our environment.<p>A small amount of Socialism is needed urgently to bring Capitalism back into a survivable form - if not, I really think we are headed for bloody revolution, because most of the populace are angry, and its a rational anger because their survival needs are barely being met, in many cases.