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Just Be Rich (2021)
No one wants to be the bad guy. When narratives begin to shift and the once good guys are labelled as bad it's not surprising they fight back. They'll point to criticisms as exaggerations. Their faults as misunderstandings. Today's freshly ordained bad guys are the investors and CEOs of Silicon
Once you understand how these mechanisms work, and that startups were suppressed for most of the 20th century, you don't have to resort to some vague right turn the country took under Reagan to explain why America's Gini coefficient is increasing. Paul paints a rosy picture but doesn't mention that incomes for lower and middle-class families have fallen since the 80s. But to use that fact to push the false claim that wealth inequality is solely due to more startups and not a real problem says a lot.
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