Who Worries About Income Inequality?
28th January 2015
Don Boudreaux, a Real Economist, uncovers a rock.
I’ve never worried about income inequality. It’s not that I’ve not worried much about it; I’ve not worried about it at all .
Income inequality — like the color of my neighbor’s car or the question of the number of pigeons in Central Park — just never dawns on me as an issue worthy of a moment’s attention. More importantly, I’ve never encountered many people who worry about inequality.
Indeed, the only time I had regular, close contact with people who express anxiety about inequality was when I was in law school at the University of Virginia. And there, those who wailed most loudly about inequality were those from families that were, as we say, the “most privileged.”