Yonatan Zunger

Tolerance is not a moral precept

The title of this essay should disturb you. We have been brought up to believe that tolerating other…

All true. One thing I would highlight about the 1950's-era social contract, though, is that it was far from as equitable as we tend to think. Specifically, it produced a great deal of equity for some groups of workers (like white industrial workers) at the expense of other groups (like black workers of all types), and it was funds from those latter…

I don’t think there’s any contradiction between what we’re saying. Real wages can certainly increase, especially when technological changes result in the net creation of wealth. Such net creation is also one of the cases I mentioned in the last section in which even relative wealth can become more evenly distributed — as happened in both the US and…

Your “Financial Shock” Wealth

Understanding money, inequality, and why the tax bill is important

Imagine that today you accidentally got overcharged $1 somewhere, and a week from now they realized this and gave you your dollar back. On…