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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by user-the-name on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:52PM (#25824428)
https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm
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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by totalZero on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:47PM (#25825762)
I don't see Iran on that list. Seems like mainly developed countries. Also, the US has a large amount of geographic cost-of-living disparity, and I am having trouble identifying whether these numbers are controlled for that.
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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by user-the-name on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:08PM (#25827265)
Other countries have that too, you know.

Fact is, United States is pretty shit when it comes to income inequality.

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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by alentist on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:08PM (#25888305)
Income inequality isn’t the problem. Poverty is. [0]

I’m not automatically worse off because someone else is better off. That’s fallacious nonsense (the zero-sum fallacy). And it definitely does not meaningfully translate across countries, if what you’re interested in is human welfare.

[0] https://www.hoover.org/research/income-inequality-isnt-probl...

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Re:Blackouts have hit Iran. The government is blaming Bitcoi... by alentist on Saturday January 23, 2021 @09:06PM (#25888280)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24206257
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