Is increasing economic inequality inevitable without catastrophe?

musicprnt
Fri, 12 May 2017 16:32:56 +0000

@ucbalumnus:
You don’t even have to go that far, look at the current situation in the US, and it doesn’t take a brilliant analyst to see the roots of many of the things we are seeing in the US, politically and otherwise. Among other things, downward mobility has been shown time and again to create a culture of failure, with all the ills attendant upon that, drug use, breakdown of families and so forth. Take a look at the problems with Opiod addiction, it isn’t a coincidence that while it is affecting the whole country, the epicenter are areas that are economically struggling. They had an interview with a farmer the other day wondering what will happen to his farm, at least one of his kids od’ed and the others have had serious problems with drug addiction.