24 mei 2019, 10:46
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Europees Commissaris
Geregistreerd: 15 juni 2013
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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Stultitiae
Een conflict zou ook in China een mogelijkheid bieden voor meer sociale gelijkheid.
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Dat is een ongemakkelijke waarheid die meestal over het hoofd wordt gezien:
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
Citaat:
The pressures of total war became a uniquely powerful catalyst of equalizing reform, spurring unionization, extensions of voting rights, and the creation of the welfare state. During and after wartime, aggressive government intervention in the private sector and disruptions to capital holdings wiped out upper-class wealth and funneled resources to workers; even in countries that escaped physical devastation and crippling inflation, marginal tax rates surged upward. Concentrated for the most part between 1914 and 1945, this “Great Compression” (as economists call it) of inequality took several more decades to fully run its course across the developed world until the 1970s and 1980s, when it stalled and began to go into reverse.
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