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I'm talking about measures like these, which granted, are only recorded back 100 years or so: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/demo/gini-index

• tathougies 7y ago
  But in those times, relatively rich Americans were selling to extremely poor Europeans, Asians, and Africans. Inequality overall has gotten better, just the geography has shifted substantially so that previously homogeneously equitable places now have a more representative share of world inequality.
  • ahje 7y ago
    So increased inequality on a local level is good as long as the global average goes down? I thought the idea was to make _everyone's_ lives better.
    • tathougies 7y ago
      Well yes decreased inequality globally does make life better, it's just that those who've gained the most (the ones that used to be poorer than the American poor) arent part of your in group