Downstream
Entrenched Poverty & Deepening Economic Inequality
Income and opportunity remain concentrated; shocks push households back below secure living standards.
Poverty entrenches when growth benefits skilled elites while mass workers face weak wages, bad public goods, and regressive taxes.
What keeps this stuck
- K-shaped growth — high-skill tech booms vs low-skill stagnation
- Returns to capital outpacing returns to labor
- Wealthy households buy private mobility; poor households absorb public failure
- Regressive indirect tax burden on essentials
- Market consolidation by large conglomerates
Is this a root problem worth fixing first?
How this connects
Where this problem sits in the causal graph — what feeds it, and what it feeds.
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