Inequality: why the big issue? Tue 26 February 2013 6:45pm, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, Cambridge Street, Manchester, M1 5BY.
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Inequality: why the big issue?
Tuesday 26 February 2013, 6:45pm start
Daniel Ben-Ami and Danny Dorling will help introduce a discussion on the impact of inequality
There is a broad consensus that we are losing our sense of common purpose as a result of the sharp widening of economic and social inequality in western societies since the 1970s. The super-rich keep themselves aloof at the top, whilst a burgeoning underclass it is thought, if not helped, can easily be tempted into anti-social behaviour at the bottom. What is the best way to respond to this?
A defining feature of socialism was its desire to abolish class and hierarchy so that human potential could be fully realised. Conservatives, meanwhile, have typically argued that material inequality is inevitable and probably also desirable. The contemporary orthodoxy though, sometimes referred to as a “new progressivism”, is fundamentally different from the traditional views of left and right. There are growing campaigns that slate the wealthy for failing to pay their fair share of tax, like for example the Occupy protesters who claim to represent the ‘99 per cent’ against the super-rich ‘1 per cent’.
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