Advantage Quote by Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Inequality in the modern world largely results from the uneven dissemination and adoption of technologies,”

— Daron Acemoğlu

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules…

— Robert Reich

Wealth inequality has increased.

— Cornel West

What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is…

— Guy Standing

I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization.

— Tyler Cowen

“Contrary to what techno-determinists want us to believe, inequality is not the inevitable by-product of technology and globalization or even the lopsided distribution of…

— Jonathan Taplin

“inequality is associated with more frequent and more severe boom-and-bust cycles that make our economy more volatile and vulnerable.”

— David Cay Johnston

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.

— Pierre Nanterme

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and…

— Freeman Dyson

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

— Alissa Quart

There's a presupposition that income inequality has been brought by tech. It's not created by an industry, or a company.

— Francis X. Suarez

“The idea was that inequalities increase in the early phases of industrialization, because only a minority is prepared to benefit from the new wealth…

— Thomas Piketty