Lion Rock Student Event - Yaron Brook - Is Inequality Unfair? on May 27, 2019
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Date: 2019-04-18

Lion Rock Student Event - Yaron Brook - Is Inequality Unfair? on May 27, 2019
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Everyone is frustrated about the education system. Some calls it "brainwashing". Here is a chance for you to learn something completely contradictory to what you have been taught.

We have all been told that increasing government intervention is justified because it is necessary to combat the "inequality" in our society. Yaron Brook challenges us to question the belief that "inequality is bad"; he even goes one step further and claims it is a desired outcome in a free society!

Yaron argues that wealth stagnation is a myth used to justify increasing governmental powers.
Looking at the "income inequality" problem however, it echos with the single biggest complaint of the people in Hong Kong (and many other places), that housing prices has become "unaffordable" to most.

And this "inequality" is seen as the direct result of inflation caused by the global quantitative easing.

So while Yaron claims that inequality caused by ordinary business success should be celebrated, this inequality caused by inflation has benefited one group at the expense of others.

We have invited Yaron to address this contrast.

The Lion Rock Institute Student Event

Yaron Brook

Is Inequality Unfair?

on May 27, 2019

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Room LG109, KK Leung Building, HKU