Inequality. 2 notes.

Lots of new inequality statistics from the World Bank’s PIP on Our World in Data:

Inequality statistics are heavily contested and rightly so, but read the right way, they still have some use.

I read this thought-provoking essay by Kaushik Basu, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. It puts its finger on many of the causes that have led to our age of degeneration—an era where things aren’t imploding but slowly decaying, thanks to our collective ignorance, apathy, and, perhaps most importantly, a…