The Importance of Income Inequality in Democracy

Ilyse Hogue: If people value the set of equal freedoms we have that make upward mobility possible, it doesn't matter what the probability is that they themselves will get there. She says in dictatorships that are unequal, they are actually more likely to become democracies than those dictatorships that were equal. "We'll have to find ways of taxing people effectively if we want to squeeze it any further," she says.