Not sure how, but I will say statistically there's little evidence that in general higher inequality leads to greater overall wealth anyway: https://ourworldind

Not sure how, but I will say statistically there's little evidence that in general higher inequality leads to greater overall wealth anyway: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gini-coefficient-vs-gdp-per-capita-pip https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gini-coefficient-vs-gdp-p... - if anything that tends to indicate the US is something of an outlier.