Does inequality matter? If, as the late Hans Rosling has brilliantly shown, humanity’s lot is steadily improving, why should we care if there’s a small cluster of the grotesquely affluent at the top of the pile?
Shlomi Segall’s Why Inequality Matters addresses this question. Against a rising tide of sufficientarianism and prioritarianism (yes, really — my spell-checker just choked) Segall argues that the value of equality is not reducible to a concern we might have for the worse off, or to ensuring that individuals do not fall into poverty and destitution; instead he claims that undeserved inequalities, wherever and whenever we might find them, are bad in themselves.
