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uh...because economic inequality has fuck all to do with arbitrary physical attributes like height.
it is a political question that follows from the way in which capitalism works.
this is not rocket science.
it is not a surprise.
it is not news.
and you can't collapse inequality in the capitalist context into some endless history of inequality if you want to say anything meaningful because the basis for it is fundamentally different--you know, generalized wage relations as over against ownership of the means of production concentrated in the hands of a particular social class (complicated by the stock and again by the transformations in stock ownership of the past 30 years in the states--but the point still basically holds)
it's a bad analogy.
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