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Re:Economics Simulation by Retric on Sunday January 24, 2016 @07:43PM (#10964869)
That's a rather biased chart.

Net median wealth per adult.

  Australia	219,505
  Luxembourg	182,768	
  Belgium	148,141	
  France	141,850	
  Italy	138,653	
  United Kingdom	111,524
  Japan	110,294
  Iceland	104,733
  Switzerland	95,916
  Finland	95,095
  Norway	92,859
  Canada	90,252
  Netherlands	83,631
  New Zealand	76,607
  Ireland	75,573
  Spain	63,306
  Denmark	57,675
  Austria	57,450
  Greece	53,937
  Sweden	52,677
  Germany	49,370
  Slovenia	44,932
  United States	44,911
...

PS: US only has high wealth if you ignore debt. Owing 200k on a 200k house is not wealth.

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Re:Economics Simulation by jbotttt on Sunday January 24, 2016 @08:00PM (#10964935)
There was some slight of hand on my part, the ratios are plotted, not the absolute numbers. The wealth inequality is more interesting than absolute country wealth in the context of the simulation I feel. I agree regarding the debt, that's why net and gross values are included in the chart. For the top 3 it makes no difference. Iceland as an outlier isn't something I would have expected though

Edit: Also the mean probably isn't defined for whatever power law is generating wealth distribution in each country anyway

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