The Tom Woods Show, episode 876.

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tom's freebooks.com. Hi everybody. We're talking about inequality today, and I know you may be saying

Woods, you have covered inequality in the past. Enough is enough, man. But, you know, there are all kinds of

angles you can view this problem from. And my guest today believes this really is the most important

issue for libertarians to deal with right now because so many

people are getting it wrong and so many people are drawing such dreadful conclusions from the

things they're getting wrong that we've got to correct the record and say sensible things.

And that guest is Leon Lowe, who is executive director and co-founder of the South Africa-based Free Market Foundation, which you can visit at freemarketfoundation.com.

Leon Lowe, by the way, his last name is spelled L-O-U-W, if you were trying to Google him.

Very interesting guy.

He's been doing some important work on this subject, and I'm delighted to welcome him to the show. Leon, thanks for being here.

Tom, it's my pleasure to be with you from the southern tip of Africa, no longer darkest Africa.

Right. We're going to have to talk a bit about that toward the end. I want to talk about inequality, but how could I not talk to you about South Africa, given that that's where you're broadcasting from? So

let's get to that a little bit later. Right now, you have been speaking and writing on the

subject of inequality. I've hit that subject a number of times on the show, but I've heard

you speak on it recently, thanks to the miracle of the internet, And I'm interested in your perspective. You've

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