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Yeah, you know, I'm not really convinced myself to be honest. Obviously you want to take advantage of comparative advantage, etc. but is a more prosperous city one which has a less unequal income or wealth or does optimizing for top-line wealth just create everything else along the way? I don't really know.

I'm pretty comfortable abandoning the view. It wasn't built on a strong basis.

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Income inequality is weakly correlated with everything. It seems to be a necessary consequence of both the most and least prosperous societies.

Honestly, income inequality is a red herring of left politics and public schooling. If the most prosperous societies have high income inequality, then the question must be asked: does it matter?

Unless you want to design a utopia. That goes swimmingly every time, I promise.

Edit: If income inequality is a consequence of freedom, it's a very, very tiny price to pay. Don't optimize for the economy. Optimize for freedom. Empirically, that's how you create prosperity.

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