General Politics Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Um, I'm sure I'm going to get major flack here but do we really want to be reaching for a Gini coefficient of 0? Do you want surgeons to make the same income as a grocery cashier?

No, that would be completely insane, although I’m sure there are people sufficiently economically ignorant to favour such an outcome. Like a lot of measures, it is not one to be maximized or minimized without regard to other considerations. But I think it’s fair to say that really extreme inequality is some combination of a symptom of various problems, and a cause of problems in itself.