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Well, this is alarming.
I don't know enough about Reagan's policies to comment on them in this context, but I will say that the problem should be examined in a comprehensive manner. I suppose you could see the lines of wealth divided by neighbourhood to a great degree.
I imagine you could set up programs by neighbourhood to provide job training, education, and the like to help provide for missing skills if that's the case.
What's particularly frustrating is how people in similar jobs are paid disparately based on race. How fucked up is that? Why is that? How do we deal with that?
Systemic racism is difficult to deal with because it can be difficult to see. Well, the essential problems can be difficult to see (and influence). The symptoms? Not so much.
And to think that the measure of wealth didn't include property such as home equity. This means it is indeed far worse than it looks.
What exactly about Reagan's policies would cause such a problem in this context? Is this about the tax system?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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