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Episode 68: As Long As People Are Free, There Will Be Inequality

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The Inequality of Income Categories

We have persistent inequality and yet for everyone to be completely equal. That sounds like a contradiction, but think it through. You can. And we don't take account of that when we talk about inequality. We expect to learn something that we by definition cannot learn from looking at the thing.

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