Shikha Dalmia on Pope Francis’ Inequality Fetish

The Pope waded into the debate raging over Thomas
Piketty’s 500-plus page controversial bestseller,
Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which warns that
Western capitalist countries are headed for ever-widening
inequality, when he issued this tweet: “Inequality is the source of
social evil.”

This is a rich statement coming from the head of the most
hierarchical organization on the planet, notes Reason Foundation
Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia.

Setting aside that irony, there isn’t much evidence for the
Pope’s claim that inequality in America and the West is all that
evil. In poor countries like India, it’s another matter, suggesting
that not all inequalities are equal. So if the Pope wants something
to worry about, he should concentrate on making poor people rich,
not rich people poor.

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