Is Inequality Inevitable

Extreme inequality isn’t just unfair but inevitably leads to civil war, “the greatest of all plagues.” | Plato, Hobbes, Mill, and the never-ending fight against inequality. https://iai.tv/articles/plato-hobbes-mill-and-the-never-ending-fight-for-inequality-auid-3079?_auid=2020 14 comments 24/2/2025 geopolitics

Plato’s warning: Extreme inequality isn’t just unfair but inevitably leads to civil war, “the greatest of all plagues.” https://iai.tv/articles/plato-hobbes-mill-and-the-never-ending-fight-for-inequality-auid-3079?_auid=2020 131 comments 14/2/2025 philosophy

Is Inequality Inevitable? (2019, Scientific American) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/ 166 comments 4/1/2023 economics

Is Inequality Inevitable? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/ 40 comments 15/10/2021 economy

Rising income inequality is not an inevitable outcome of technological progress, but rather the result of policy decisions to weaken unions and dismantle social safety nets, suggests a new study of 14 high-income countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK and the US. https://academictimes.com/stronger-unions-could-help-fight-income-inequality/ 12 comments 25/4/2021 economy

Rising income inequality is not an inevitable outcome of technological progress, but rather the result of policy decisions to weaken unions and dismantle social safety nets, suggests a new study of 14 high-income countries, including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, UK and the US. https://academictimes.com/stronger-unions-could-help-fight-income-inequality/ 3111 comments 25/4/2021 science

Is Inequality Inevitable? Wealth naturally trickles up in free-market economies, model suggests. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-inevitable/ 78 comments 29/11/2019 math

The eternal return of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: How to change the course of human history (at least, the part that's already happened) The story we have been telling ourselves about our origins is wrong, and perpetuates the idea of inevitable social inequality. https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/ 3 comments 2/3/2018 philosophy

Inequality is not inevitable – but the US 'experiment' is a recipe for divergence Gabriel Zucman, Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/14/inequality-is-not-inevitable-but-the-us-experiment-is-a-recipe-for-divergence?cmp=share_iosapp_other 3 comments 14/12/2017 economy

Inequality is not inevitable – but the US 'experiment' is a recipe for divergence https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/dec/14/inequality-is-not-inevitable-but-the-us-experiment-is-a-recipe-for-divergence 5 comments 14/12/2017 politics

If We Don't Change the Way Money Is Created, Rising Inequality and Social Disorder Are Inevitable http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjune17/inequality-disorder6-17.html 3 comments 28/6/2017 economy

The more central problem of money in politics is something just as troubling but much harder to see: a system in which economic inequalities, inevitable in a free market economy, are transformed into political inequalities that affect both electoral and legislative outcomes. http://billmoyers.com/story/corruptions-not-the-problem-its-inequality/ 13 comments 21/1/2016 politics

The emerging populist agenda "All agree that our extreme inequality is not the inevitable result of globalization or technology. It is the result of policy and power. The rules have been rigged. No one reform offers an answer; broad reforms are needed. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-emerging-populist-agenda/2015/05/12/525ad83e-f7f9-11e4-a13c-193b1241d51a_story.html?tid=rssfeed 828 comments 13/5/2015 politics

Inequality isn't inevitable, it's engineered. That's how the 1% have taken over. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/19/inequality-inevitable-1-per-cent-growth 112 comments 21/1/2015 politics

Paralysis Isn’t Inevitable: Income Inequality and N.R.A. Dominance May Not Last Forever http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/opinion/joe-nocera-paralysis-isnt-inevitable.html 13 comments 28/9/2014 moderatepolitics

Paralysis Isn’t Inevitable: Income Inequality and N.R.A. Dominance May Not Last Forever http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/opinion/joe-nocera-paralysis-isnt-inevitable.html?smid=re-share 24 comments 27/9/2014 politics

Is Rising Inequality Inevitable? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/09/is-rising-inequality-inevitable.html 3 comments 26/9/2014 economy

The Great Divide: Inequality Is Not Inevitable http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/inequality-is-not-inevitable/?action=click&contentcollection=u.s.&module=mostemailed&version=full&region=marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article 3 comments 30/6/2014 politics

Nomi Prins: The Inevitability of Income Inequality - Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_inevitability_of_income_inequality_20140311 3 comments 15/3/2014 politics

French economist publishes "one of the watershed books in economic thinking," showing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/capitalism-vs-democracy.html 162 comments 8/2/2014 europe

American economy had exhausted the “low-hanging fruit”—cheap land, new technology, and high marginal returns on education—that had powered its earlier growth; the real story isn’t inequality per se, but rather a general and inevitable economic slowdown http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/11/when-machines-replace-humans-at-work.html 3 comments 8/11/2013 politics

Income Inequality is a Choice, NOT an Inevitability http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/inequality-is-a-choice/?hp&_r=0 13 comments 14/10/2013 politics

Converging Income Inequality in Brazil and the United States: Beyond the inevitable surprise of finding out that the US will soon be as unequal as Brazil, the consequences of such are already transforming both societies. http://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/converging-income-inequality-in-brazil-and-the-united-states-some-uncomfortable-realities/#more-3058 2 comments 5/4/2013 politics

For richer, for poorer | Growing inequality is one of the biggest social, economic and political challenges of our time. But it is not inevitable. http://www.economist.com/node/21564414 4 comments 28/10/2012 economy

How the Legal System Was Deep-Sixed to Serve Elite America and Occupy Wall Street Became Inevitable: As was not true in recent decades, the American relationship with wealth inequality is in a state of rapid transformation. http://www.alternet.org/economy/152861/how_the_legal_system_was_deep-sixed_to_serve_elite_america_and_occupy_wall_street_became_inevitable/?page=entire 27 comments 26/10/2011 politics