Monday, February 29, 2016

Quoting Lincoln to make the case for lower GINI

The GINI Coefficient is a measure of income equality / inequality; zero means perfect equality while one-hundred means perfect inequality. I think this Lincoln quote I just came across, represents well, the cause for greater income equality, particularly between those who make money from money itself and those who earn a living making, growing, and contributing towards tangible goods, and services.
"I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, He would have made them with mouths only and no hands; and if He had ever made another class that He intended should do all the work and no eating, He would have made them with hands only and no mouths." Abraham Lincoln, 1859

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