And I think that's behind a lot of the things that people are worried about. inequality, and the problems for catastrophic risk feel like They're there as well.
Okay, here's the growth rates over time. Inequality and meaningful work.
Um and the other thing that I've noticed is that most folks I talked to do think that AI will by default increase inequality, right? It's going to allow some people to, again, rent infinite machine labor because they'll have intelligence on top that they can just pay for, whereas other people lose their economic leverage and are not going to be able to have skills that the AI
And I was raised with this beautiful ancient African wisdom of ubuntu, which I firmly believe could be a very, very important tool in addressing inequalities. So I also wanted to bring this wisdom out of Africa of what it means to be human, of what it means to understand how to solve for these pressing inequalities. Ubuntu literally means "I am because we are," and "because we are, you are." So it recognizes that we are so connected by our shared
inequalities. So I also wanted to bring this wisdom out of Africa of what it means to be human, of what it means to understand how to solve for these pressing inequalities. Ubuntu literally means "I am because we are," and "because we are, you are." So it recognizes that we are so connected by our shared humanity and that, because of this, it's our responsibility to take care of one another, to exercise compassion, and to really find a way
These are the major drivers of climate breakdown. inequality firsthand. Yeah, it's a question that I've struggled with myself, actually, certainly because if I'm trying to communicate
believe in it. They believe in equality in the abstract. inequality they didn't consult with us about How do we create this architecture, er and this racial hierarchy, so you don't need to consult with us about how to undo it.
And I think that says a lot about where we are today and the idea that if we can fix this income inequality challenge, we've got a chance of kind of getting through the challenges we're facing. So I think it can give us some hope.
So this is nothing new. inequality. And what do we say to the citizens of Brazil who go, as they did in the 1990s, stop telling us
And so in that sense, one of the underlying arguments in this book-- and it links to the point about having a democratic free inequality and have a lot of benefits for the farmers, for the poor, but somewhere in the line of a lot of bureaucrats, these benefits get lost.
we're among friends, I can be honest, is I'm the most important person in the world. inequality.
So why should we care about wealth shares? Inequality is mainly about capital income and capital ownership being concentrated.
stolen by them from the indigenous tribes. Inequality with the dark-skinned people whom they had once owned like mules-- how did this ever occur? Assholes. The rules were being made by assholes.
There'd been lots and lots of great books written about the decline of the middle class in the last generation, income inequality, political polarization, globalization and its effect on the economy. I didn't want to write a policy book.
The pretax has increased for a number of reasons; a lot of them are related to how we structure our corporations. inequality and so forth, serves the interests of the people in power better.
to be a problem. I would say China and the United States are at the margin with Gini Coefficients of somewhere between.4 and .45, that's just the standard measure of income inequality. If it's one, one person has all the income and if it's zero we're all equal. There are a collection of countries that have higher Gini Coefficients and they're in Latin America and Africa, for the reasons that we talked about in relation to land and that
inequality. And you've all seen the you see in the papers while the while the rise of these
Income inequality is the overwhelming
And I think that's behind a lot of the things that people are worried about. So inequality can rise even though everyone's income is higher.
wealth inequality, all sorts of factors that nobody really chose, that aren't their fault. Uh that's one piece of the
But inequality is not only made of resources.
Income inequality has been eliminated.
or inequality in some way.
have fought for them. I have gotten to the point in my career, and it's largely because so much of my work about inequality, uh, has nothing to do with Trump or Trump supporters or red state voters. It has to do with white liberals, white progressives who say they believe in equality except when it comes to the neighborhood they live in, or the kids they send or school they send their kids to, and then they don't really
Income inequality is a local and global threat.
Income inequality feeds distrust.
of inequality and lots of political volatility.
So this is nothing new. and inequalities and violence.
the inequality in well-being.
feed inequality, freedom mobility-- and then how patterns are changing over time.
the inequalities of our age.
Income inequality-- there's some really interesting recent research showing that income inequality is driven as much by the gaps between the performance of different firms
of inequality. And that equality does not exist, because white people in the city don't want it to exist.
the inequalities in this country but when I arrived at the US attorney's office and went to court and stood
income inequality as a result this is London in 2011 there was a riot uh um it
And inequality that is not just income, that is not just wealth, but also educational.
Gender inequality decreased by many different ways between 1970 and 2000.
economic inequality within the market framework.
where inequality is growing, not declining.
But inequality based on income is twice as big as it was 40 years ago.
The inequality facing actresses?
Why inequality is bad for economic growth.
And I think that's behind a lot of the things that people are worried about. And that could raise inequality.
And I think that's behind a lot of the things that people are worried about. That raised inequality, but all the rest of us got iPhones.
You have levels of inequality that we've almost never seen. There's a rise in political violence, the collapse in trust, and the biggest thing of all that
And when inequality reaches a certain level, and when the inequality of power follows
the economic inequality to a certain level, that's when I think you start to have earthquakes in in the society and what it feels like to live in this
exacerbate wealth inequality, and even prop up authoritarian rulers across the globe.
You also mentioned inequality.
And income inequality is a kind of pandemic.