The “Ignorance Hypothesis”
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| U.S. Income Disparity: Actual, Perceived Actual, Perceived Ideal |
From "Theoretical Egalitarians" by Timothy Noah for Slate, September 27, 2010:
…Why aren't the bottom 99 percent marching in the streets?
One possible answer is sheer ignorance. People know we're living in a time of growing income inequality, [Paul] Krugman told me, but "the ordinary person is not really