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There are a HUGE number of historical counterfactuals to this. Musk and Bezos combined have about as much as Rockefeller had and that's just after accounting f
by anm89 5y ago
There are a HUGE number of historical counterfactuals to this.
Musk and Bezos combined have about as much as Rockefeller had and that's just after accounting for inflation, not even considering the overall pie was much smaller then.
Or look up Mansa Musa.
so no, it hasn't "only been like this" for x amount of time. The world is less equal now than 50 years ago but drastically more equal than most of the rest of history.
- choko 5y agoI think with the rise of FIAT based currency, you might have a hard time making a case that things are "less equal" than they were 50 years ago. Much of the wealth gap fear comes from a lack of understanding in how wealth is created resulting in zero-sum thinking.