Inequality is not an inexorable fact but emerges from a complex process with good and bad sources: good inequality comes from value-creating entrepreneurs like Brin and Page who made others better off while capturing only a fraction of the value; bad inequality comes from bailouts of Wall Street and subsidies to rich farmers.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

they found Google and they make our lives better and they vaulted ... to being in the top 1% and more power to them ... and then there's the kind that's not so good which is ... bailouts of Wall Street or subsidies to rich farmers

Source

Bruce Meyer on the Middle Class, Poverty, and Inequality 10/03/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:20:26 AM

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