 No pain no gain. It's an economic myth that has been repeated in countries around the world That if people put up with increasing inequality It will be better for us all in the end because the benefits of growth will eventually trickle down except they don't In many of the world's richest countries the gap between rich and poor is at its highest in 30 years and It's widening in China India and South Africa too Far from being a necessary phase in every nation's progress Rising inequality is a polity choice and a bad one at that It's actually a failure of economic design and it harms us all So don't wait for economic growth to even things up because it may never happen Economies that are divisive by default must become distributive by design That means going beyond redistributing income to redistributing wealth too Especially the wealth that comes from controlling land controlling money creation Controlling business technology and ideas This century we have the chance to embed Distributive design at the heart of our economies if we choose to make it happen