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> I think the author's ideological bias is most revealed > gap between rich and poor has become shockingly large Your ideological bias is clearly revealed as

• frobisher 6y ago
  On the contrary, I think the gap is a statistical fact in many places. e.g. https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality
  • sampo 6y ago
    Global inequality going down, inequality going down in continental Europe, and Latin America. Inequality increasing in anglosphere. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/07/Top-Incomes-768x549.png https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/07/Top-Incomes-768x5... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-inequality-in-latin-america https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-inequality-in-lati... https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality#global-income-inequality https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality#global-income-i...
    • ChuckNorris89 6y ago
      That's income inequality. Try looking into wealth inequality for the real picture. Governments, at least in europe, are quick on the trigger to tax income but never wealth. In Germany, that already leads to an insane level of wealth inequality, among the highest in europe, where tons of families have mini feudalistic empires quietly stashed away.