Inequality could cause violence on streets economist warns
Inequality could cause violence on streets economist warns
Scotland's top economist fears if neo-liberal policies aren't reversed and inequality addressed, violence on the streets could become a reality
No shit sherlock
For it to make any difference it would need to be violence in gated communities.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-richest-billionaires-in-us-states/
These homes would be a nice start. Can we just organize a “Naruto Run” on these peoples’ houses and property, and y’know… whatever else happens happens.
Imagine seige engines.
“The norms of the market aren’t driven by our norms or the values of society. Many of our problems come from the failure to recognise what Smith was saying, and the corruption of his work. We live in a society where ethics and morality are unfortunately determined by markets and corporations.”
Smith’s writings are “simply contrary to the neoliberal paradigm”. He would have been appalled, MacDonald says, by “the accumulation of wealth on the scale we see in the world today” by figures like Elon Musk. Smith certainly cared about “generating wealth” but he also cared about “how we deal with inequality. He favoured government legislation to help the poor”.
MacDonald adds: “He said the primary interest of government should be ensuring that there’s proper distribution of wealth, that if we’re doing well we can’t simply look at others and think ‘he’s not, but I don’t care’ – which is the ethos today.”
Ensuring proper distribution of wealth seems to be the last thing governments are prepared to do, or even discuss in any serious way.