President Obama and the Democrats have finally decided, five years after his election, to begin talking about the issue of income inequality (minus any mention of blaming those responsible), which has been increasing since the early 1970s. But their rhetoric makes it sound like inequality is a weird byproduct of capitalism when, in fact, it is a key feature of an economic system that relies on poverty and exploitation. This is the best system ever conceived?
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