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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by Mu37 on Sunday May 29, 2016 @12:46PM (#11797012)
Western society/governments will start looking more and more like the Chinese I feel, cause western society hasn't found any serious alternate way of reigning in the 1%. It will most likely happen after the "something bad" stuff does.
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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by todd8 on Sunday May 29, 2016 @01:41PM (#11797299)
China has greater ratios of inequality than the US. See World Bank figures: http://wdi.worldbank.org/table/2.9
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Re:Challenging the myth that the rich are specially-talented... by anke_ on Sunday May 29, 2016 @02:36PM (#11797596)
Which would support the hypothesis. Greater inequality greater the tendencies for authoritarian control. US inequality is on a increasing trajectory with nothing likely to stop it. So where else do we end up?
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