Wealth inequality is still huge in Scandinavia (especially Sweden which is even worse than the US in that regard), Germany and the Benelux (especially when compared to many other European countries which might not have very strong unions..). So unions didn't really help that much with that...
Also, there is plenty of actual research that backs this up, i.e.:
- https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-help-reduce-dispariti...
Every single socialist European nation (including the Scandinavian ones) has a better wealth distribution than the USA.
> So unions didn't really help that much with that...
Can you back your statement up with facts instead of hand-waving away paragraphs of meaningful discussion that came before this comment?
Credit Suisse says otherwise when measured using Gini:
https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/ab...
Of course they are possible not the most trustworthy source given the recent events..
To be fair I don't know how to explain the disparity, the report even says this: "For all other countries, except the United States, the wealth shares of the top groups are expected to be understated"
The U.S. has long profited from being able to leverage plentiful natural resources and a dominating international position into being attractive to well-educated people from around the world and thus never having to fully rely on its own broadly abysmal but narrowly elite education system and other social services.
That is probably something you see as a victory, but it is also the definition of unsustainability: at some point the stresses introduced by this approach will start to crack the social fabric. Arguably, it already has.