Highlights

In a world grappling with escalating multiple complex challenges, understanding their dynamics and seeking effective remedies in a more granular way is more crucial than ever if we ever want to see systemic change and improvement to peoples' lives. Take an issue such inequality for example, which politicians, theorists, and activists have debated, at times violently, over. The journey to measure inequality has been complex. Traditional methods often focused on either absolute or relative inequality. Absolute inequality deals with the disparity in actual resources distributed among individuals, while relative inequality examines the distribution in relation to society's overall economic structure. This debate between smoothing out relative versus absolute inequality has been central to policy discussions. Some advocate for improving the poorest's absolute conditions, while others argue that reducing relative disparities is key to maintaining social harmony and economic stability. Often the debate reaches a kind of stalemate, or we see the pendulum swinging between one side and another, without every reaching a long-term lasting solutions. ...