Inequality within an economy where everyone has equal opportunity might be optimal, but that's nothing like the state of the world we're in.
Inequality, a sign of a good economy? Are you kidding me?
I didn't see anywhere where he said economic inequality is the sign of a good economy. In fact, I believe he's suggesting that there is a link between economic inequality and social inequality and he tries to offer a solution to delink the two.
The link is broken or it's not pointing to the essay.
I fixed it.
(The period was getting incorporated into the url; if you turn urls into links, it's not straightforward to say where they end.)
How about also supporting the <URL:http://google.com/> syntax that the RFCs use? It would let us submit the more tricky ones. It was invented because of the problem you're having; it's ambiguous whether the trailing dot is part of the URL or not.
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Steve Jobs and company set the bar pretty high I suppose, but this speech wasn't that great, and many people have made these same points much better. And I'm not sure that he justified his assumption that inequality is necessarily an evil. this isn't about exactly the same thing, i admit, but doesn't paul graham have an essay about inequality in a society being a good thing, a sign of a healthy economy, or something like that?
oh, and i could picture the audience shifting uncomfortably at his jokes about trying to score chicks at radcliffe.