Timothy Noah Quotes
Inequality doesn't create unhappiness.
Noah, Timothy. The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It. Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
AI Explanation: This is a famous philosophical observation attributed to the early Christian author Lactantius. It suggests that true poverty isn't about a lack of material wealth, but rather being denied fairness, equality, or your rightful claims.
This was one of his great fundamental questions of mankind which his research began to answer.
He was writing about America and many of the industrial democracies who at the time, as a result of globalziation, technology, government action and inaction, and other factors, had gone through a 30 year period of increasing disparities.
Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958) is an American journalist and author. Previously he was labor policy editor for Politico, a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of The New Republic, where he wrote the "TRB From Washington" column, and a senior writer at Slate, where for a decade he wrote the "Chatterbox" column. In April 2012 Noah published a book, The Great Divergence, about income inequality in the United States.
