Re:Degrees of Wealth
by woopah on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:39AM
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While it's true that a lot of China's conveniences come from essentially labor market arbitrage and rural/urban inequality, the fact that the Netherlands can afford to attempt to reduce wealth inequality is a sign itself that it's a very wealthy country. I would also prefer the pace of life in the Netherlands, but I wonder to what extent you also have to buy more fairness and a slower pace of life?
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Re:Degrees of Wealth
by smallnamespace on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:13PM
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> attempt to reduce wealth inequality is a sign itself that it's a very wealthy country
Poor countries also reduce wealth inequality. In fact, China went through a Communist revolution where all private landowners’ wealth was taken from them. This happened from the 1930s through the 1950s and was a fairly bloody, violent process, involving lots of revolutionaries inciting peasants to forcibly occupy land and buildings and killing landlords if they didn’t cooperate.