Why this fuss about income inequality? https://www.business-standard.com/opinion/columns/why-this-fuss-about-income-inequality-124032801231_1.html
India has always had income inequality. In the past, it housed a large swathe of the world’s poor, and now it also houses some of the world’s richest, and many in between. This columnist, a homegrown, non-economist people researcher, struggles to understand the expectation that moving from socialism to capitalism should have decreased income inequality, despite the starting point of a steep pyramid on income and human development parameters.
After 1991, a smaller group with skills, assets, education and enterprise, set free with the world as their oyster, seized the opportunity and made quantum leaps in income and wealth.
There is still a huge gap between aspiration (what I want for myself and my family) and opportunity/ access for decent education, health care and employment — more so, In some parts of the country than others. It is this gap that needs constant monitoring and fixing more than the gap between the rich and the poor.
Comment on WA: newer conservative narratives pushed in between blatantly communal divides. namely gap between aspiration and access to education, health care and employment .. in effect Socially Necessary Goods as the carrot... ie the case for Socially Necessary Time of the people with the illusion of "Ease of Living" being provided by IT, phones, communications,