“I found in many of the conversations people knew about inequality, that CEOs are making hundreds of times more than their average worker,” she says. “They would occasionally talk about a kind of unfairness about that, but then when I would ask — ‘Why do you think the big battle is between public workers and private workers, for example, rather than CEOs and their workers or the rich and the relatively low-income?’ — the answer I almost always got was they’re supposed to make money. They’re in business. That’s what they are supposed to do. There’s just this huge separation between the … political world and the economic world. People’s sense of what’s just, that ‘massive inequality in the private sector is OK because that’s how it’s designed.’