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>Ah, so we are now officially more unequal than during the gilded age Unequal with whom ? You are considerably less unequal with millions of people who a decad
by stevetrewick 11y ago
>Ah, so we are now officially more unequal than during the gilded age
Unequal with whom ? You are considerably less unequal with millions of people who a decade or two ago were desperately scratching their survival out of subsistence farming.
Some people would call that a win. YMMV.
- cryoshon 11y agoA relative win against people who aren't even in the proper frame of reference. It's the same as saying "you have a refrigerator, people in Africa don't even have that!" which isn't even a true statement to make these days. Extreme poverty is on the endangered list. The frame of reference is in-country and between the country's peers. The worrying part of this frame is that relatively poor places like Latin America are catching up or have caught up already. We are losing ground.