The researchers argue that past studies have looked at the level of inequality in a country, but not why inequality occurs — whether it's a product of structural inequality, like political power or racism, or simply a product of some people or companies faring better than others in the market.
How else to confront a system of structural inequality that has savagely circumscribed lives for generations?
But I also insist that if he's going to start a revolution against structural inequality – as he famously told Jeremy Paxman he wants to – he needs to understand his own part in it, by listening to women's experiences of sexism and thinking about how his past actions may have impacted upon the women around him.
"It's creating a form of structural inequality where the money and cultural and social influence are restricted from the women," Hughley said.
Perhaps Lost in Showbiz might be so bold as to suggest to this undoubtedly brilliant musician that true imagination is being able to see past your own lovely artistic bubble into the lives of people who would also have loved to do creative things for a living, but never stood a chance, because of structural inequality.
It is clear now that the exaltation of individual will as something free of social and historical pressures, and as flexible as markets, concealed a breathtaking innocence about structural inequality and the psychic damage it causes.
It's a classic denial of structural inequality, found in the heartless conservative handbook alongside "Poor People Are Lazy" and "She Was Asking For It".
"How does one justify subsidized rents for artists in the face of structural inequality?" "Can an artist working here avoid being a handmaiden of gentrification?" I wasn't satisfied with any of my answers, and fortunately for me, and unfortunately for Wilmington, no one was asking.
A new paper produced by the inclusive prosperity commission attached to Labor's official thinktank, the Chifley Research Centre, says inequality in Australia is on the rise, and structural inequality puts a drag on economic growth.
