The poorest Americans beget no realistic hope of achieving anything that approaches income equality. They still struggle for access to the basicsThe economic hoarding by those at the top has been termed income inequality,but that’s neither a strong nor accurate enough phrasing. I beget never heard destitute people complain approximately “income inequality”; destitute people complain approximately being screwed out of housing , or approximately working more hours for less pay or approximately having to choose between medicine and food.“Inequality” sounds like something that happens by accident and can be remedied by fiddling around the edges. It is not as if the wealthy are a little more equal and the destitute a little less equal, and if we shift a bit well all come out in the middle. What we’ve been calling “income inequality” might be better understood as a war waged by US political and economic policy on the destitute.
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Source: theguardian.com