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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by witty_username on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:06AM (#13242973)
Global income inequality has been decreasing.

http://voxeu.org/article/parametric-estimations-world-distri...

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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by Ygg2 on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:32AM (#13243440)
That's inequality between states. Inequality within states hasn't decreased.
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Re:Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People by witty_username on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:06PM (#13246200)
IIRC inequality of all humans has decreased as poor people have become richer.
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