Comments on: Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment

sorry, was trying to quote "In case of a true fire or ship wreck if the CEO and mailroom clerk are treated the same in the rescue, then Capitalism survives. I think the mob only gets mad when the...

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Wasn't a major point of the post that when the ship is ...

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In case of a true fire or ship wreck if the CEO and mailroom clerk are treated the same in the rescue, then Capitalism survives. I think the mob only gets mad when the captain does not go down wi...

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this case, the notion that wealth, in a basically post-scarcity environment, serves in part the function of insurance. Wealth is about insurance much more than it is about consumption. As consum...

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Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment - Interfluidity

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Interfluidity on the Productivity Effects of Wealth as Insurance: Waldman is excellent and thoughtful, as always.

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Inequality Damages Resilience Posted on August 9, 2012 by Michael Tobis • 0 CommentsA very creative and insightful piece by Steve Randy Waldman on income inequality makes the case that social ...

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can only consume so much, but you can hedge against risk to an unlimited degree, and the ultra-wealthy do, suggests Interfluidity, and this makes a mess of a consumption-based economy when you g...

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Your general proposition about wealth-as-insurance sounds like a much more complicated form of a relatively a simple idea--basically, that people's balance sheets should enter the utility functio...

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For JKH, SRW, or anyone else, let's say I have a checking account at bank A and at bank B. I write a check for $100 from bank A and deposit it at bank B. How does that clear? Is it with $100 of c...

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