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I don't see Iran on that list. Seems like mainly developed countries. Also, the US has a large amount of geographic cost-of-living disparity, and I am having tr
by totalZero 6y ago
I don't see Iran on that list. Seems like mainly developed countries. Also, the US has a large amount of geographic cost-of-living disparity, and I am having trouble identifying whether these numbers are controlled for that.
- user-the-name 6y agoOther countries have that too, you know. Fact is, United States is pretty shit when it comes to income inequality.
- alentist 6y agoIncome inequality isn’t the problem. Poverty is. [0] I’m not automatically worse off because someone else is better off. That’s fallacious nonsense (the zero-sum fallacy). And it definitely does not meaningfully translate across countries, if what you’re interested in is human welfare. [0] https://www.hoover.org/research/income-inequality-isnt-problem https://www.hoover.org/research/income-inequality-isnt-probl...