Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

Don Watkins · Yaron Brook

Mar 2016 · Macmillan + ORM

About this ebook

We’ve all heard that the American Dream is vanishing, and that the cause is rising income inequality. The rich are getting richer by rigging the system in their favor, leaving the rest of us to struggle just to keep our heads above water. To save the American Dream, we’re told that we need to fight inequality through tax hikes, wealth redistribution schemes, and a far higher minimum wage.

But what if that narrative is wrong? What if the real threat to the American Dream isn’t rising income inequality—but an all-out war on success?

In Equal is Unfair, a timely and thought-provoking work, Don Watkins and Yaron Brook reveal that almost everything we’ve been taught about inequality is wrong. You’ll discover:

• why successful CEOs make so much money—and deserve to
• how the minimum wage hurts the very people it claims to help
• why middle-class stagnation is a myth
• how the little-known history of Sweden reveals the dangers of forced equality
• the disturbing philosophy behind Obama’s economic agenda.

The critics of inequality are right about one thing: the American Dream is under attack. But instead of fighting to make America a place where anyone can achieve success, they are fighting to tear down those who already have. The real key to making America a freer, fairer, more prosperous nation is to protect and celebrate the pursuit of success—not pull down the high fliers in the name of equality.

Ratings and reviews

Don't know why the lower reviews aren't showing up on my end. The book is worth the time! It upholds truth as it is represented by reality. Or at least makes a big effort to come close, compared to what most others do. That alone is worthy of the read. FYI, these pro freedom books will always challenge some at a fundamental level. So that's the cause for the poor reviews. I'd love to say I've never seen anything like the gutteral reactions, but it's been common since I started asking questions in college. Read it for yourself. I happen to think it's great and comforting; simply because it paints, and gives contrast to, a good, honest, realistic life I can aim for and advocate despite my past failures and self deceptions. For others, the value is in the aim of a truthful look at the motives behind the absolute distain for The American Dream by my fellow Americans and Europeans.

Must read for every high school and college student. On

About the author

Don Watkins is coauthor, with Yaron Brook, of the bestseller Free Market Revolution. A fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute and a former Forbes.com columnist, Watkins writes for The Guardian, USA Today, and FoxNews.com, among many others. He is the host of the podcast The Debt Dialogues.

Yaron Brook is executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute and host of the weekly radio show The Yaron Brook Show. Brook writes for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor's Business Daily and many others.