The Consequences of Inequality

"It doesn't look like inequality can be placed at the feet of capitalism, it seems to me to be a far more intractable problem than that," he says. "We cannot take incremental improvement as itself an indication that the risk of catastrophes is at an acceptable level", Tel-Eb adds. It's very hard to estimate what the risk of a catastrophe is, but there are certainly some that we ought to take very seriously." 'The universe not only doesn't care about us, but has a number of features that are constantly pushing back'