Income and Wealth Inequality: Crash Course Economics

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1. Is income inequality really a bad thing? I mean, what do I care if the richest people on Earth are billionaires or trillionaires, as long as life keeps getting better for everyone? The problem, I think, is how little the poor have, not the difference between the poor and the rich.
2. I think wealth shouldn't be inheritable. That would give people more incentive to work. The remaining wealth can be distributed to the poorest. Anyone care to back me up or point out the flaws?
3. This is BS, living conditions are getting worse for the poor in the USA!
4. I think that while the poorest has gotten a slightly higher income hike it is important to note that since NAFTA went into effect that 7% of the middle class has risen to a higher income level but there is an almost equal number of people (about 4%) of the middle class that have went into poverty. Progress?
5. Do the rich do something amazing that which the poor can't do and that is why they make more money? Or do they get paid more just because they want to get paid more? Because it seems to me that the rich get paid more because they are in a position to get more (they write the paychecks) and not because they actually deserve it. And something I never understood is why people need to be super rich in the first place. Wealth isn't what ultimately brings you happiness. Is it even moral to have so much more than others and be okay with it?
6. Therefor your bernie sanders taxing the rich more and paying colleges with it is even more possible as long as it's executed well.
7. Hi, can anyone here explain further what they mean by " Widening" ?
8. Inequalities of income across national borders is greatly dependent upon the labor force, technology, education, and values of the nation in question. Which this video did not even take a moment to acknowledge.
   
   I appreciate videos like this for their basic explanation, but after seeing several dozen there is without a doubt an underlying bias trying to be pushed. They are constantly trying to subtly appeal to persons that believe in an approved point of view regardless of rationale and evidence. For example, how they have to make it a major point of every video to try and get their audience to acknowledge some invisible discrimination that the hosts never care to elaborate on or give direct examples of.
   
   I feel this channel is really no different from most others that claim to be giving you a broad and objective view on the subject, no different from Prager, as well as others.
9. Imperialism
10. I see your Karl Marx bust.
11. Hell ya nice belt buckle
12. apparently, people don't mind that their share of income is unequal. because they actually believe that with the free market, they can enter the richest realm if they work hard enough. but they missed the point: you will get wealthier but in the mean time, the gap of inequality keep getting bigger and bigger and you will not get pass this gap. BECAUSE YOUR SHARE OF INCOME IS UNEQUAL.
    
    I mean did they even watch the video before they comment?
13. Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Socialism makes people equally poor.
14. Minimum wage laws kill jobs....fact.
15. How can you see all that stuff about how the countries that adopted Capitalism during the 19th century got really rich while those that didn't stayed relatively poor and not love free markets!
16. 1:18 mistake: You said "less than 20% of the world's population" but the graphic shows "Population >20%"
17. The key is simple: Create free-market capitalism.
18. What is this Keynesian trash?
19. You should do a video on WEALTH inequality, because that is a much more important metric. Wealth inequality has actually decreased while income inequality is increasing. I think that would be an interesting video. Why is that happening?
20. woo living on 11k$ this year, at least it was more than last year