[Air-l] air-l Digest, Vol 23, Issue 6

[Ellis Godard]

I delayed sending this because it's a bit off topic of AoIR issues. But
since it's mid summer, I thought perhaps others might be willing in
continuing this part of the conversation...

Eduardo Villanueva wrote:
> Inequality is wrong, I concur;

Value statements such as this may be irrefutable, and therefore have limited
utility. 

Nonetheless, inequality is an inescapable fact of social life. It can
perhaps be minimized, but cannot be eliminated.

> at the same, unless capitalism
> is completely replaced by something else, it is an inevitable
> consequence of an specific economic structure. 

Capitalism is not very specific, has possibly never been pure, is probably
inevitable under any purported alternative, and is not the only economic
structure that produces inequality.

-eg