Noah Millman has a very good post up riffing on the debate over inequality that’s been going on at The Economist’s “Democracy in America” blog. Whereas many non-essential consumer goods have become much cheaper thanks to rapid increases in productivity in certain sectors (think, for example, personal computing), Millman argues that in essential and non-replaceable areas of our daily lives, the inequality gap is increased quite a bit:

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