Kim Stanley RobinsonEfficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich. We prefer the opposite of efficiency, which is to say, justice.
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Efficiency is a measurement of how fast money moves from the poor to the rich. In other words, efficiency is a metric by which we can gauge how productive a society is, and decide what policies would make it more productive. Whether it’s an increase in minimum wages or a decrease in taxes, we can adjust our society to provide more opportunity for the less fortunate. This is the antithesis that House Speaker Paul Ryan was trying to convey when he said, “Efficiency was just a measurement of how fast money moved from the poor to the rich.”
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