Everything is fuel for your creativity with the Lenovo Yoga laptop series.

From the people you meet to the creators you follow, it all comes together with

Lenovo Yoga.

Plus, you get a 50 pound travel voucher and a shot at winning an awesome trip to New York and a Motorola

razor 40 Ultra. Check out the Lenovo Yoga series with laptops made for creatives at

Lenovo.com slash Yoga. Limited time only terms and conditions apply. Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform.

I present Professor Joe Sickles.

Okay.

Well, it's a real pleasure to be here and to see as a so much interest in the issue of inequality.

In a way, I can't help but say I wish that magnitude of interest

of being shown last Thursday the the you know when you write something you always hope that something will get a reaction and when my book came out I was actually a little bit pleased that the Wall Street Journal wrote a article, a review of the book,

and they were complaining about my complaining about inequality.

I think they thought that there should be two more inequality and I thought there was

less so we had a disagreement. Let me spend a minute talking about the origins of my own interest in the subject.

I grew up in Gary, Indiana, which is a town in the southern shore of Lake Michigan, the history of which

really reflects the history of industrialization and de-industrialization in the United States. It was founded in 1906 as the largest

integrated steel mill in the world. It was a real company town. It was named after the chairman of the board of U.S. Steel. You can't be more of a company town than that.

And, but it was in some ways a very progressive town.

The school system was led by somebody called Willard Wirt, who was a protégé of John Dewey.

So it introduced a lot of very progressive ideas.

But even at the period when I was growing up, which was the late 50s,

you couldn't but help notice the high level of inequality in this industrial America.

...