Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
1–10 of 223 posts
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#2A good place to start is "who does polarization benefit?".
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#3> The study says, “We see that sufficient redistribution can reduce both inequality and polarisation, although a high degree of redistribution is required to prevent
polarisation.”
Have they factored in the act of wealth redistribution itself being polarizing? From a statistical/theoretical perspective it checks out, but I bet practically speaking if you actually tried "a high degree of [wealth] distribution", the middle and upper classes would start screaming and it would cause even more polarization. If the key thing needed to reduce polarization is "reducing inequality", it would probably be good to investigate alternative methods of reducing inequality as well.
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#4> The study says, “We see that sufficient redistribution can reduce both inequality and polarisation, although a high degree of redistribution is required to prevent polarisation.” Have they factored in the act of wealth redistribution itself being polarizing? From a statistical/theoretical perspective it checks out, but I bet practically speaking if you actually tried "a high degree of [wealth] distribution", the mi…
Maybe this very thing is what is already causing polarization? Many people are already trying to reduce wealth inequality. Maybe the upper classes are fighting back in a way that causes polarization.
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#5Hard to do scapegoating when people's needs are met.
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#6I would note that there are centuries of political theory written on this topic with a famous document written in 1848. Unfortunately, most of this theory concludes that class war is required to create an equal society.
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#7A good place to start is "who does polarization benefit?".
Whoever is living the good life right now, apparently
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#8No post body was provided.
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#9> The study says, “We see that sufficient redistribution can reduce both inequality and polarisation, although a high degree of redistribution is required to prevent polarisation.” Have they factored in the act of wealth redistribution itself being polarizing? From a statistical/theoretical perspective it checks out, but I bet practically speaking if you actually tried "a high degree of [wealth] distribution", the mi…
Maybe this very thing is what is already causing polarization? Many people are already trying to reduce wealth inequality. Maybe the upper classes are fighting back in a way that causes polarization.
Well, yes. There's a number of politically-active billionaires funding all sorts of weird hyper-polarizing "news" sources. I put "news" in quotes because when sued for libel these "news" outlets use the defense of "nobody could possibly have believed this was true, it's just entertainment".
If a redistributionist looks like they will become popular they will get smeared into the ground.
Re: Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
#10Yes can confirm, in the USSR we had no political polarization.
Everyone was always satisfied with the ruling party all the time. It was great joy.