Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by microcolonel on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:13PM
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The United States is not a particularly wealth-unequal country by world measures.
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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by greglindahl on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:33PM
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The US is very wealth-unequal, especially if you compare it to developed countries:
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by specialist on Saturday September 23, 2017 @02:14PM
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Compared to itself, 30 years ago.
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by IncRnd on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:45PM
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That page doesn't compare wealth but disposable income.
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by dahauns on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:32PM
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https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/dp2008-03.pdf
Picture's still the same.
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by IncRnd on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:21AM
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Actually, that isn't shown by your link. Your link's Table 1 shows Wealth Shares by percentiles in 10% intervals. This shows a gap of 39% for the US and 53% for Denmark, between the lowest 90% and the top 10% by wealth. Comparing the top 10% to the bottom 10% shows an 82% difference for Denmark and a 70% delta for the US.
The OP wrote, "the wealth gap in the US seems so much bigger than any other country," which is not supported by your link.
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by dahauns on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:09AM
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The US is the third worst in that list. If you're content to say "but X is worse", as long as there is at least one X, so be it...
EDIT: And if you want more recent data: https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/research/research...
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by astrodust on Saturday September 23, 2017 @08:18PM
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America is a lot more like African and South American countries in terms of income inequality than compared to other G20 countries.
It's also one of the few countries with a multitude of multi-billionaires and yet an astoundingly high rate of child poverty.
Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists
by sleavey on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:39PM
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The question was specifically about developed countries. If you look up the Wikipedia entry on wealth inequality [1] and sort the first column, looking down the list the USA appears to be the highest ranked country for inequality (ratio of earnings between richest and poorest 10%). Notably China is there, and Mexico and South Africa too, among myriad developing African and Central/South American countries.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...