From the article:
It’s a funny thing about the inequality debate that has consumed the
American intelligentsia for the past several years: The individuals who
are most interested in identifying, describing, diagnosing, and
addressing the phenomenon of income inequality are the individuals least
affected by it. We are not living through a revival of Chartism. There has been no recurrence of the Pullman Strike to galvanize public attention on the dissatisfaction of labor. The closest we have come to a popular revolt is the Tea Party,
a protest movement of the beleaguered white middle and upper middle
classes that wants government to do less, not more. The passionate
spokesmen against inequality look a lot like Couric and de Blasio:
Wealthy progressive journalists and politicians, intellectuals,
nonprofit employees, academics, social workers, consultants, and
activists whose professional and social identities are defined in
relation to “hot topic” issues. For these people income inequality is
not only an economic and social trend to be lamented, but also a trend
upon which their incomes and status depend. Inequality is a business.
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