Inequality Is Bad For Everyone, Not Just

We Are Paying Teachers Who Are In Charge Of Our Human Capital, Arguably More Important Than Our Financial Capital, A Very Tiny Fraction Of What Wall Streeters Are Paid.

I Think That It's Difficult To Talk About Large Questions Of Economics Or Social Policy Without Understanding The Building Blocks Of Society. And Those Building Blocks Are Organizations, The People Who Run Them, And The People Who Work In Them.

Education Is Not The Only Answer And It's Certainly Not The Immediate Solution. At Best, It's A Necessary, But Not Sufficient Response To Widening Inequality.

What Characteristics Are Most Important In Creative Workers? One Quality You Need Is Inventiveness. You Need To Be Able To Take Whatever Product Or Service You Are Providing And Figure Out Ways Of Making It Better, Faster, Cheaper. The Other Quality Is Empathy And Insight Into What People Might Want, Even Though They Don't Even Know Their Wants, Probably Because There's No Product Or Service To Test Their Wants.

You Ask, "could We Have An Honest Discussion About Earnings Insurance?" I Think We Could, If People Understood That The Alternative Was To Build Up A Backlash Against Global Capital, Against Free Trade, Against Technological Change.