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Celebrated thinkers like Steven Pinker and Harry Frankfurt tell us that inequality shouldn't concern us, and that we should only focus on whether or not we're lifting people out of poverty. In the real world, even if everyone starts off relatively wealthy, inequality undermines the basis of that wealth and eventually results in a class of powerful owners and a class of poor people who depend on the property of the wealthy for their survival. - What Is Politics?

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