Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
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Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
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Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#2Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#3Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
Damn. You took the words right out of my mouth.
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#4here's one of the main reasons why income inequality is so bad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-g6tXnI8b4
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#5Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
Wow. Talk about gratuitous negativity. Lots of people have a favorite theory about where Daesh came from. Blame Bush. Blame Obama. Blame Islam. Blame oil companies. At least this hammer isn't one we're already sick of hearing. What do you actually think is wrong with Piketty's analysis, other than the fact that he has actually published on this topic before?
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#6It's been clear for a very long time - what's needed is: Opportunities for creation of wealth, access to health care and specifically mental health care and lots of education.
Next.
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#7Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
Why address the substance when a glib dismissal will do?
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#8Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
You didn't address his argument at all. Just an ad hominem.
Is that because you can't address it? Because his thesis seems quite reasonable to me. And historically, we certainly know that societies with extreme income inequality are less stable than those with more equality.
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#9Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."
Wow. Talk about gratuitous negativity. Lots of people have a favorite theory about where Daesh came from. Blame Bush. Blame Obama. Blame Islam. Blame oil companies. At least this hammer isn't one we're already sick of hearing. What do you actually think is wrong with Piketty's analysis, other than the fact that he has actually published on this topic before?
I think he meant that "income inequality" is the hammer, as the source of every one of society's ills.
Re: Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not be enough
#10While inequality may be ONE factor, it is definitely not THE factor. Much more important are the factors of American imperialism, Islamic extremist ideology, destabilization of Iraq, and so on.
What Piketty is right about, however, is that it is the policies of the West is in part to blame for the extreme rise of inequality in the Arab world. That said, I am not too certain Arabs would have fared better on their own.