The Difference Between Good and Bad Inequality: Office Hours with David Henderson
Hoover Institution research fellow David Henderson answers your most pressing questions about good and bad inequality from his video "The Inequality We Should Worry About."
- [0:24] What is the difference between good and bad inequality? How can some inequality be good?
- [1:12] Do you have any estimate of how much inequality in the United States is good or bad? And how would you go about figuring that out?
- [3:00] Is it possible or likely that new advances to technology can occur at similar rates to what we have now without increasing the wealth gap?
- [4:05] Is there a better way to measure inequality than with income? Would it make identifying good and bad inequality easier?
- [5:53] Many people believe it is impossible to get extremely wealthy without exploiting workers or bending the rules in your favor. How true do you think that is?