–All the smothering paste of macro-principles and generalizations cannot stop the bubbling up and surfacing of those contingent factors that differentiate inequalities for the purposes of really-existing policymaking and management–societal, political, economic, historical, cultural, legal, geographical, governmental, psychological, neurological, technological, religious, and more.
–So what?
The World Bank estimates over 1.5 billion people globally do not have bank accounts, many being the rural poor. Yet having bank accounts ties us into a global financialized capitalism. What, then, is to have more value? The rural poor with bank accounts or not? Integrated even more into global capitalism or not?
There are, of course, those who insist such is not a binary choice. Surely, though, bank accounts work in some instances and even then differently so.
–Insisting on case-by-case looks to be weak beer. That is, until you realize the self-harm inflicted when political possibilities are foreclosed by policy narrativea that assume the world is everywhere and equally so colonized by capitalisms and their inequalities.
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 