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Video | Income & Inequality

Dead Wrong: Equal or Fair?

In a study, six-year-olds showed that they preferred to throw out rewards, rather than distribute them unequally. Even children know that inequality is unnatural. We humans just hate it. Dead Wrong.

Johan Norberg — Jan 18, 2018

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  • Johan Norberg

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    Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He is the author of, "Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future."

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