World is suddener than we fancy it.
World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural.
Louis MacNeice, "Snow"
There are so many different programs, projects, activities and initiatives connected to “income inequality” that the immediate challenge is to compare and contrast them before drawing generalizations about anything like an [Inequality] bracketed off from really-existing variability.
The comparison is not so much at the level of that country’s family support program contrasted to this country’s family support program, when it comes to a capitalized benchmark called [Inequality].
The comparison is more across many family support programs, much along the lines that no single heart is the same as another but these different and other different hearts set the stage for recognizing patterns across really-existing ones. That pattern recognition is of inequality, with a small-i.
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 