🎭 Stories We Tell Ourselves About Inequality

How three news stories from the past week show us what we value

Three stories from the past week:

ONE.

The Submersible.

As a monumental effort was launched to find the four wealthy industrialists stuck at the bottom of the ocean in a shoddily made submersible, on the other side of the Atlantic, Greek coast guardsmen on a rescue vessel just … watched … as 700 migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East slowly sank to their deaths.

TWO.

The Prime Minister

Before he became prime minister of India, Narendra Modi was the only person ever denied entry to the United States based on a religious freedom law - a decision the George Bush administration made in 2005 based on his failure to lift a finger as hundreds of Indian Muslims were brutally assaulted and murdered in Gujarat, a state where he served as chief minister. Yet this week, Modi was welcomed at a lavish state dinner by President Biden. No mention was made of the Gujarat incident or the human rights abuses that have occurred under his watch since then.

THREE.

The War

The tragic war in Ukra…