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“ Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger. ”

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Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

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Chrystia Freeland Economics Inequality

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

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Chrystia Freeland Time Impossible Remember

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

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Chrystia Freeland Opportunity Successful

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

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Chrystia Freeland Growth Idea Poor