Why Do Young People Care So Much about Income Inequality?
“It’s easy to see why my classmates might think our current distribution is fundamentally unfair. The top 1 percent of American households control almost 40 percent of our country’s wealth, and the U.S.’s Gini coefficient, a common measure of economic inequality, is .41, making us one of the most lopsided large countries. But is that really something to be ashamed of?”