Millennials Are Not Embracing Socialism Because They’re Poor, But Because They’re Rich
The discomfort, embarrassment, and guilt of living well in a cruel world plagues young Americans who have no framework for understanding cosmic inequalities.
How To Explain That Seizing Money From The Rich Ruins The Economy For Everyone
Conservatives need to start talking about the rich as ‘fountainheads’ and ‘Atlases,’ individuals who are indispensable to wealth creation and general prosperity.
Democrats Harp On Income Inequality Because They Don’t Know How To Help The Poor Rise
As the post-revolutionary French will attest, pulling down those at the top is never a sustainable solution to inequality.
If You Think Minimum Wage Hikes Are The Bomb, Check Out Its Explosion In Venezuela
Thousands of Venezuelan businesses unable to pay the new wages closed, and the stores that remained increased prices.
If America’s ‘Aristocracy’ Works Hard To Get And Stay On Top, So Can Everyone Else
An article by The Atlantic blames the ‘9.9 percent’ for hoarding riches, and inadvertently reinforces conservative conclusions about why people succeed.
What Life In Communist China Taught Me About Bernie Sanders’ Guaranteed Jobs
No government can equitably divide what it does not first control. And controlling the economy also requires controlling the rest of society.
How Medicaid Expands Social And Economic Inequality
Medicaid’s constant, inexorable growth in state budgets has left less money for education of all types—not least higher education.
Why Megan McArdle Shouldn’t Lose Faith In School Choice Just Yet
School choice hasn’t been tried and found wanting. It’s been found politically difficult and not really tried.
How The Minimum Wage Entrenches Inequality And Economic Privilege
This fall, ten states will likely raise their minimum wages, either due to new state labor department regulations or legislation.
It’s Long Past Time To End All Discrimination Policies And Restore Equal Protection
Ultimately, federal law places every employer and employee in the same no-win situation as Google: lawsuit if you don’t have enough protected class employees, lawsuit if you try overtly to hire them.
Why Demanding Equality In All Things Makes Us Narcissists
The individual, many believe, must be cared for in all things despite the cost to others (a narcissistic notion)—all in the name of equality.
Nope, The Evidence Still Says Income Inequality Is Not A Problem
Women don’t have to work to support their families, houses are not more expensive, college costs aren’t related to wage decreases, and wages have not stagnated since the 1970s.
The Patriarchy Is Too Powerful For Us To Deny White Men The Vote
To effectively take the vote away from the white males, one must give them special non-voting privileges. Which kind of defeats the purpose. Sorry, ladies.
Democratic Women’s Complaining Problem Could Be Making Them Unhappy
It seems Democratic women are twice as likely as Republican women to perceive that they’re being discriminated against, and hence, complain about it.
‘Privilege’ Is Just Another Word For Family, And We Need More Of It
‘Privilege’ is just another term for strong family ties. That means we’ll serve more people by expanding privilege rather than by destroying it.
‘House Of Privilege’ Dramas Teach College Students Crippling Lies
The originators of the House of Privilege think equality can be achieved by dismantling ‘oppressive systems’ such as hard work and caring for your kids.
Debunking The Income Inequality Fallacy
With their book ‘Equal Is Unfair,’ Yaron Brook and Don Watkins expose the dishonesty of the income inequality debate and open readers minds to the potential of free markets.
How Obama Left Us More Racially Divided Than Ever
If you think America is a land of oppression instead of a land of freedom, you will sow social discord. That’s President Obama’s legacy.
Inequality, The Bourgeois, And Ideas That Changed The World With Deirdre McCloskey
“Our riches were made not by piling brick on brick, bank balance on bank balance, but by piling idea on idea.”
Chicago Deserves Riots Over The Laquan McDonald Shooting And Coverup
If any city government deserves to be torn down over its contempt for its subjects, as in the Laquan McDonald case, it’s Chicago’s Democratic Machine.
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