Wealth inequality is strongly correlated but ultimately not the root cause -- it is rather precarity that causes many of our social ills.
Specifically, less high paying manufacturing (labor) jobs.
There’s lot of studies that show that marriage rates have decreased because of…
- the decrease in union power
- globalization (offshoring)
- technological innovation
Read them here:
American Economic Institute - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aeri.20180010
Brookings Institute - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-marriage-gap-the-impa...
How do you think the wealthy got wealthy without selfishness?
You seem to be implying that it isn't the inequality, but that all those poor people should stop being selfish.
If only those poor people would stop being selfish, the wealth inequality wouldn't be a problem.
LOL.
https://www.thelangelfirm.com/debt-collection-defense-blog/2...
If selfishness isn't a good general explanation for Pareto distributions, is there a reason that it's particularly explanatory for wealth distribution?
You could measure selfishness in small experimental scenarios and try to correlate it with the wealth of the subjects. Does that evidence exist?
Most inherit it. Then lose it. That’s the typical path of wealth. Rarely, it’s amassed by someone who starts with little. Here these people, the ones who create rather than squander wealth, are called “selfish” often by the wealth squanderers, the children of abundance.