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Could Global Inequality Actually Be…Good?

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The Inequality Debate

A few weeks ago, Larry Summers called into a Bloomberg TV show from his house in the Caribbean and said something about how the unemployment rate would need to come up. This caused all manner of headlines about how dare Larry Summers say that people need to lose their jobs when he's lying on a beach in the Caribbean. More recently, there was a New York Times article about the founders of three eras capital who similarly like a hanging out in Bali and having a nice life. And so now I feel like we have a, we have an actual debate. Well, you misunderstood me. I'm not against people taking vacations. But don't post the pictures. Like don't do an interview where

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