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What? Where is he inciting people to get out onto the streets? He doesn't. He's asking a valid question, that a lot of people including economists are asking.

The poor and middle class are getting crushed. It hasn't quite hit the demographics that read HN, but it'll eventually happen.

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"Just asking a question" is one the most obvious tactics of intellectual weasels.

Socrates started it.

Did he?

The method was named after him for a reason. :)

Just asking a question is an excellent way to discuss. "Just asking a question," as in actually stating that phrase once somebody takes your question as the discussion it was intended to be, is weaseling.

I don't imagine Socrates ever responded to someone who argued back that, "I'm just asking a question."

You're reading more into the question than can be supported by the wording of the question or by the article itself.

The assumption is that conditions were once such that popular movements or uprisings of the poorer classes were relatively more frequent in the past than in recent years. The article explores in perfectly sober terms how these conditions may have changed.

You may have ideological leanings that predispose you to find the discussion inherently inflammatory, but there are plenty of reasonable people who do not see it that way.

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