Nicholas Wade

That's a legitimate fear.

But surely if you look at the history of civil rights in the US, the trend has gone the other way.

The Voting Rights Act enfranchised everyone.

And discrimination...

It may not be a thing of the past, but it's certain you can't discriminate in public in any way.

So, in fact, Americans have done everything

a government reasonably can to lift up its black population and give them an equal chance and equal opportunities.

It hasn't done so perfectly, but at least you can point to all the efforts it has made.

I'm starting with the civil war to end slavery.

So it doesn't necessarily mean that people are going to make the worst, the most divisive possible use of this information.

I think the thing we should have talked about if we had time was the very deep problem of inequality.

So inequality is very destabilizing society.

But if you have an open society, merit-based, particularly...

in this era of very fast technological advance, where enormous fortunes get made overnight, you are going to have a lot of inequality.

And you have to find some way of making that acceptable to a population.

Well, we might need a universal basic income if people get put out of jobs, which is not yet clear.

I think one aspect of inequality that is important to keep in mind is that you shouldn't really mind if Bill Gates is a lot richer than you or I are.

The question is, do we have enough to eat?

And, you know, almost everyone in this country has enough to eat.

They have a roof over their heads.