LETTER: Opportunity to work is the type of redistribution vital to SA’s success
Never was wealth created without risk and work, and never was wealth created by the state
08 April 2021 - 17:04
Ismail Lagardien appears to lean one way with his head and the opposite way with his heart when it comes to the Max Roser/Jason Hickel debate about global poverty (“When economists get blinkered by non-ideology, (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2021-04-06-ismail-lagardien-when-economists-get-blinkered-by-non-ideology/)” April 6).
As I understand the debate, it is both about whether global poverty has fallen at all and about the extent to which capitalism/colonialism/free enterprise have contributed to the shift, one way or the other...
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