Dan Crenshaw's Refreshingly Rational Take on Income Inequality

So, on the one hand, you have a deep and persistent focus on inequality - it's defined as the gap between the rich and the poor - and at first glance, that seems pretty reasonable. But in reality, it means you're dividing your attention. Half your attention is focused on protesting the wealthy - and these days that seems actually where most of the attention is - and that leaves only a small amount of focus on the real issue, which is people in poverty and their ability to move up the economic ladder. This is the kind of backwards thinking that leads to ideas like Andrew Yang's, where we raise taxes on the rich only to give it right back to them in the form of universal basic income. It's hard to imagine a more inefficient and ineffective way to reduce poverty.

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