People in the countryside are angry about that. And we feel this growing gulf towards the urban areas, towards those people sitting in a nice cafe is in Prague. It could be, you know, take another example, which is also maybe more striking. Look at this Germany. You cannot say that this Germany has not done reasonably well. But it's actually a high inequality, people who have made,. and not only high inequality per se, but really people who have make money through corruption.
Yascha Mounk and Branko Milanovic discuss what his famous elephant curve says about the ills—and the gains—of globalization; how the left’s concern with inequality is being turned against its concern with internationalism; why economic causes of populism are often expressed in cultural ways; and how a determination to increase the financial and educational endowments of ordinary citizens can combat inequality and boost their living standards.
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