“ The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. ”
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.
~ Chrystia Freeland
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.
I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
