The Plague of Extreme Inequality

---The US Problem, and the Reason for the Political Economic Chaos in which we are embroiled...

Highly recommend the book: Williams, David Lay. The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx. 2024. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition. Williams considers the view on extreme inequality starting with Plato; The New Testament (esp. Jesus, but also brother Peter, and Paul); Thomas Hobbes; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Adam Smith (yes, dear old Adam had lots of concerns about Extreme Inequality, denied in modern mainstream economics); John Stuart Mill; and, naturally, Karl Marx

For a Review of the book, click here… a 10-page pdf file with several quotes from the book, followed by MetaEcon commentary.

And, heads-up — will report back after I finish the book — on the matter of what is starting to look like a Regime Change to a 1500s era Patrimony, see: Hanson, Stephen E. and Kopstein, Jeffrey S. 2024. The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future. Hoboken, NJ: Polity Press. The DOGE attack on the US Agencies is essential in order get rid of the competent, professional civil service who commit to follow the Rule of Law. DOGE is all about moving away from the Rule of Law to install loyalists (competence optional, as we can already see in Cabinet Appointments), a major feature of a Patrimony, which is a Rule of Men (literally). Stay tuned.