Before the credit crunch it used often to be said that the Right had won the economic argument and the Left had won the cultural one. But the Left had also appeared to win a third argument, the linguistic one. I refer to the use of the term “inequality” to signify differences in income and wealth. The implication is that equality should be the norm, deviations from which need to be explained.
信用緊縮發生之前，有個很流行的說法是，右翼在經濟論戰中取勝，左翼則贏得了文化辯論。然而，左翼似乎還贏得了第三種爭論——語言學爭論。我指的是，他們使用「不平等」這個詞語來表述收入和財富的差距。這裏暗含的意思是，平等應是常態，如偏離了平等，就需要找出其中的原因。
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