This has got to be my favorite post I have ever read on this website. Props to you for not doing what everyone else does and finding information to justify your position, but instead becoming informed on the realities of the phenomenon. I am very interested in this topic and find your insight about governmental policies very interesting. I look forward to looking into this issue more myself, as I plan to become a public policy maker, but the information you have provided is very helpful and enlightening. I would also try to look into time in US history or in other places when income inequality was drastically lower, and see if it would be possible for us to imitate systems like these now.

Hi, I would really like to read the “one article” that you cited! Hmm, you said you found a lot of research about income inequality that doesn’t exist. However, you only cited 1 article (the other doesn’t have a source). However, I found a trove of articles+ graphs that show that income inequality exists. The New York Times has a nice collection too (http://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/income-inequality). To find others, just type in income inequality in to google. Its great to get out of our armchairs (we don’t step out of them usually) but we should’ve been out of our comfy armchairs doing things (like raising minimum wage) a long time ago to protect our incomes.

I agree about it being great that you expanded your own opinion! However, there are a few things you have said that lead me to question the validity of some of your claims. You said that depressions and recessions are the “greatest factor in reducing inequality”. I’m going to assume you’re talking about income inequality, but nonetheless that is not true. Recessions and depressions are detrimental to the employment rate, inflation rate, and the overall economy, or business cycle. Recessions often occur due to high inflation, which leaves the value of your dollar worth much less. This doesn’t affect the rich nearly as much as the poor. When this inflation begins to recede, unemployment strikes, which often times is worse for the poor than for the rich.
I like that you expanded, but I think it’s important to look at multiple professional sources before taking them to be accurate and true.

I think you make a great point, people need to actually try and educate themselves more. People get stuck in echo-chambers and never feel the need to go out and challenge their beliefs. Whether you agree with a point or not, I believe we should all absorb media that may not be our norm.
Great Points

I believe this is a very important topic. We learned about this a bit in my highschool’s economic class, and over the summer we were told to read the book “Aftershock” by Robert Reich. I’d highly recommend on reading that, it having some good info on this in some chapters. I also agree with listening to more non traditional viewpoints. I’d rather learn those then listen to what Trump is currently doing unrelated to politics. Your facts are well written, and you’ve done some good research.