> Countries with more equal societies, like the Nordics, and Canada, do not have strong populist movements like those in the US and the UK. University elitism

> Countries with more equal societies, like the Nordics, and Canada, do not have strong populist movements like those in the US and the UK. University elitism and general egalitarianism are easily separable. Germany quite deliberately got rid of its elite universities after 1968, leveling former pinnacles of research excellence like Göttingen, Heidelberg and Tübingen so that which university you go to now has basically no social cachet. Every US Supreme Court justice went to Harvard or Yale. The website for the German Supreme Court mostly doesn’t list where they got their degrees, so little do people care. Germany is not an egalitarian society. It is class and title obsessed. Sweden may have an egalitarian affect but it likewise has large and enduring fortunes. The wealth inequality is there even if income inequality is more modest.