An American City Where the Government Barely Exists

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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