Dr Yaron Brook argues that wealth stagnation is a myth used to justify increasing governmental powers. Looking at the “income inequality” problem however, it echos with the single biggest complaint of the people in Hong Kong (and many other places), that housing prices has become “unaffordable” to most. And this “inequality” is seen as the direct result of inflation caused by the global quantitative easing. So while Dr Brook claims that inequality caused by ordinary business success should be celebrated, this inequality caused by inflation has benefited one group at the expense of others.