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A comment on The Data Show That Socialism Works (2019).

Re:The Data Show That Socialism Works (2019) by vixen99 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:15AM (#25644325)
Be interesting to see how the author sees China with its mercantile socialism fitting into this framework given that it claims to have more billionaires than any other country? According to MSN news: 878 billionaires in China versus 700 in the US.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinas-number-of-billio...

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Re:The Data Show That Socialism Works (2019) by oseityphelysiol on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:38AM (#25644472)
Number of billionaires is not a measure of economic inequality. Also, China has 3 times the population of US.
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Re:The Data Show That Socialism Works (2019) by adrianN on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:36AM (#25644463)
Comparing absolute numbers is meaningless, you have to look at per-capita values.
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