New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable

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Post by sparkle_fish » Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC

Re: New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable

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Post by erhmmmm » Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 7:20 PM UTC

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Post by lambdaone » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 10:29 AM UTC

Fascinating work. I'm in the process of reading David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything, so this is timely for me.

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Post by kelseyfrog » Thu, Apr 17, 2025, 2:34 PM UTC

Well yes, but telling people that it is inevitable and having them believe it comes from political economy not reality.

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Post by m463 » Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 2:01 AM UTC

lambdaone wrote: post #3

Fascinating work. I'm in the process of reading David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything, so this is timely for me.

I read debt: the first 5000 years and found it fascinating.

Personally I think wealth inequality has changed because now wealth is portable.

2000 years ago, someone with wealth like musk would have had to collect, transport and guard a mountain of gold bullion.

nowadays it's just number goes up in a bank computer.