alwhite comments on The decline of violence as a lens for understanding effective altruism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: alwhite 08 January 2015 05:48:40PM 1 point [-]

Income equality certainly does play a role. This is why I include the GWP stat as well. I don't think we're at a point where income equality fixes the problem. If we made all things equal, I think we'd end up short and more people would suffer. But that is only at the view of right now. If we increased our production output even more so that total equality would put every everyone at 4 times the poverty level, then I think this income equality issue would become the greater force in violence.