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A comment on What to Do About Inequality (2012). Parent comment

Re:What to Do About Inequality (2012) by leetcrew on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @10:26AM (#19849678)
we don't only need large discrete items. 83% of a software engineers lifetime earnings could feed/house a lot of people for a short time or at least a few indefinitely. it could pay off many student loans. it could buy thousands of books for a library.
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Re:What to Do About Inequality (2012) by baddox on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @11:01AM (#19850099)
There are huge economies of scale for these things too, and more importantly, there needs to be structure and people who know how to implement social programs getting paid to do so.
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