What Is Even Happening?

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Income inequality and virtue-signaling
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Income inequality and virtue-signaling

We attribute income inequality to lots of different inputs and look at fancy charts often. Maybe it's just about human behavior at base.

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Ted Bauer
Nov 20, 2019
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I don't feel like spending a huge amount of words on this topic, and it likely would not matter if I did anyway, so let's start here: While I fully understand the tenets of capitalism and "the free market," I do still think it's ridiculous that athletes get paid at their level, or millennials get paid big by brands to make meme videos, and meanwhile tea…

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