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Re:The Real Class War by henrikschroder on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:31PM (#21641161)
Well, not every western country has horrible income equality. In the US, median disposable income has been pretty flat the past few decades.

In Sweden, the median household disposable income doubled in the last 20 years.

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Re:The Real Class War by Slothrop479 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:46PM (#21641321)
Not coincidentally, in terms of rich western countries the English speaking countries have the strongest historical ties to neoliberalism movement of the 80s, e.g. Reagan + Thatcher. See the graph of income inequality in English speaking countries vs non in the OECD since 1910.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/07/Top-Incomes.png

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