[dikdik]

>The cause of economic inequality is several generations of government disrespect...

And who makes up the government that writes and votes on these laws? And who uses their money to influence the people in these positions?

My guess is the upper class of FTE works in the top 1/5 of the population? Although, maybe it's more apt to say the 1% or 0.1% who are not workers?

Does the author include the business owners and elites in their top 1/5 of the population? Or are they a different subset as they are not workers?

[padobson]

You're asking most of the right questions. But the real question you should be asking is this: what's the solution?

Slavery. Jim Crow. Subsidized discrimination. The war on drugs. Several generations of government coercion used for evil. Peter Temin is advocating to fix the problem with more coercion.

Am I supposed to believe that we've somehow evolved past prejudice? That prejudiced people won't gain influential office and use Temin's prescriptions to target those they hate? Sounds like more of the same.

Let's break the wheel and give everyone the same opportunity.