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Other countries have that too, you know.

Fact is, United States is pretty shit when it comes to income inequality.



Income 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-probl...




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