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Re:Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People by Tainnor on Sunday November 19, 2023 @09:19AM (#38332840)
Why are you only looking at income inequality, only in the United States and only in the last 20 years? Look at where that graph was in 1980, for example.
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Re:Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People by fallingknife on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:25AM (#38334123)
Because you said "over the last couple decades"
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Re:Why Dumb Ideas Capture Smart and Successful People by Tainnor on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:19AM (#38344527)
But I didn't intend 2000 to be an arbitrary cutoff. 1980 is important because it's right before Reagan- and Thatcher-style economics. And if you look at measures of wealth inequality (e.g. the share of wealth owned by billionaires), that's actually become worse especially during the pandemic.
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