Re:How People Get Rich Now
by sneak on Monday April 12, 2021 @12:58PM
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> At the end, there's a massive claim that isn't fully stated but implied. "Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing" translated means "income inequality is not a problem".
Now, I can't speak to whether or not pg's implication here was intended and unsaid, or not intended: it is likely intentionally ambiguous.
One thing I can speak to though is that it seems common now to read something as if the thing it implies is the thing the author actually intended to communicate. We should be quite careful with this sort of assumption. Sometimes it's a safe one, other times it is not.
Now, I can't speak to whether or not pg's implication here was intended and unsaid, or not intended: it is likely intentionally ambiguous.
One thing I can speak to though is that it seems common now to read something as if the thing it implies is the thing the author actually intended to communicate. We should be quite careful with this sort of assumption. Sometimes it's a safe one, other times it is not.