In ESSENCE, Doug, in ESSENCE! That gini stuff is just a bunch of accidents.
I think Capitalism (capital C) functions in Carrol's private religion as Satan in a fallen world. It's a very calvinist worldview he's got: the fallenness; evil present everywhere, all with one source; redemption will arrive mysteriously from some place in the future and we can't really affect its coming, but we have to work hard anyway so we can be saved. Damn, it is a form of secularized calvinism, it really is.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> So Sweden is the same as Brazil? A society with a
> gini in the .20s is
> the same as one with a gini in the .50s?
>
> Doug
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