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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by sokoloff on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:53AM (#27483836)
It doesn’t look to me like Germany has significantly better score than the US. (0.818 Germany vs 0.852 US. 0.867 Sweden and 0.906 for Netherlands [with 0.736 the very year prior, making me suspicious of the stability of those data points as I can’t comprehend that wealth distribution across a country that large could change that much in a single year].)

* - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...

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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by withinboredom on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:09AM (#27484229)
The Netherlands is quite small (about the size of LA + suburbs). I didn’t look at the data, but there was a major shift in 0-hour contracts in the last year due to COVID-19 which would probably impact those calculations[citation needed].
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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by sokoloff on Saturday June 12, 2021 @09:15AM (#27484279)
The figures in the table are 2018 to 2019, so predate CV-19. Even with that, those would seem like that could shift income inequality measures but not wealth inequality measures by such a wide range.
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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by tchalla on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:45AM (#27484077)
Is the GINI scale linear? In other words, what does a difference of 0.81 vs 0.85 mean?
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