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People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given.

Branko Milanovic

It’s harder to understand that at the same time, you can actually have global inequality going down. Technically speaking, national inequality can increase in every single country and yet global inequality can go down.
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Country Everything National Speaking
While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization.
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Country People Problem
Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.
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Backward Human Inability Justifies
For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.
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Become Countries Good News Success
People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given.
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Country People Trying
They are working people in the upper part of the global income distribution. They might on average be happy that the Chinese are doing well, but they are not happy that the Chinese are doing well relative to them.
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Average Country Global Income Well
When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor.
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Job New Technology Thinking
If, for example, each of us had the same share of capital in the national total capital, then if the share of capital goes up it’s not a problem, because you get as much as I do.
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Country Financial Problem
If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.
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Rich View Country Visualize
When they see the word inequality it makes them upset, because [it means] you want to take money from them.
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Inequality Money World
The problem is that capital in capitalist countries is very heavily concentrated, especially financial capital. So then if the share of income from that source goes up, that actually exacerbates inequality.
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Exacerbates Inequality Problem
Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government.
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Country People Real
In the U.S. when people like me started writing things about inequality, the economic journals had no classification for inequality.
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Finance People Writing
They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.
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People Permanent Segement
I couldn’t find where to submit my inequality papers because there was no such topic. There was welfare, there was health issues, there was trade obviously. Finance had hundreds of sub groups.
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Finance Groups Inequality Papers

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