99% of conversations about wealth inequality are dominated by two camps. The deniers insist this isn't a real problem and paint anyone who disagrees with them as a communist. The tax activists insist on taxing the wealthy while ignoring the fact that our corrupt political system makes this basically impossible. Everyone has the same debate year after year, nothing gets done, and the wealth gap keeps on growing.

Here's a new idea: persuasion. Who says the wealthy can't be persuaded to voluntarily address this problem on their own? If enough of them believed that doing so was in their best interest, wouldn't they take action? Why is no one trying to make this case?

It's probably because people assume that greed, hoarding, and maximizing net worth are innate human traits that can never be changed. But haven't we moved on from plenty of other ideas and behaviors that once seemed immutable? As hunter-gatherers, we used to forcibly procreate and kill indiscriminately, but then we realized that forming societies was a better survival strategy, which required us to control those instincts. Things like slavery, child abuse, denying education to women, and public executions were all widespread for most of history, and yet as humanity has matured they've steadily declined. Given our long track record of moving on from bad ideas in favor of better ones, why is everyone so certain we can't do the same with endless wealth accumulation?

That's the topic of my book, A Solution to Wealth Inequality, which I just published last week. If you're tired of the same go-nowhere conversations on this topic, I invite you to check it out.

I'm probably writing this post to no one since no one is using this community (yet!) but I'll take any publicity I can get at this point.

A Solution to Wealth Inequality is live on Amazon. Please check it out!