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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by greglindahl on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:33PM (#15320442)
The US is very wealth-unequal, especially if you compare it to developed countries:

https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm

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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by specialist on Saturday September 23, 2017 @02:14PM (#15320932)
Compared to itself, 30 years ago.
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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by IncRnd on Saturday September 23, 2017 @03:45PM (#15321347)
That page doesn't compare wealth but disposable income.
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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by dahauns on Saturday September 23, 2017 @09:32PM (#15322769)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/dp2008-03.pdf

Picture's still the same.

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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by IncRnd on Sunday September 24, 2017 @12:21AM (#15323286)
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.

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Re:An American City Where the Government Barely Exists by dahauns on Sunday September 24, 2017 @09:09AM (#15324554)
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...

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