David Brooks Trivializes Income Inequality

This article by David Brooks has only one purpose. The column has one meaningless paragraph on income inequality. The rest of the article is about social conventions that have nothing to do with the real problem of growing income inequality in America. That of course is the point of the article. Income inequality in America is no more important than a bunch of other things that are unequally distributed and not worth talking about. David Brooks is a master of obfuscation. A course on rhetoric could be build upon his op-ed pages. The trick is to read his last paragraph and then read the article to see how he got you there