Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
The U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did: (Source: The Intellectualist)
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bennet
@bgrill.eth
yes, but I would posit mobility is more important?
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keccers
@keccers.eth
This is pre Covid. Curious how the plague changed this.
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Jon Commstark
@commstark
Wealth distribution is a farse No one cares how much more someone else has than them They care what they have Revolutionary France had ppl starving in the streets. America has obese ppl as their poorest
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depatchedmode
@depatchedmode
I have been screaming this since 2015.
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EyesObscura
@eyesobscura.eth
It would be interesting to have the same for all west countries. I'm quite sure it's the same for all, in a smaller scale than US. Furthermore numbers are from 2016, so it's way worse now. As Peter Turchin say in "end times", Elite either accept to reequilibrate society or brace for impact (US and other west countries do not take the right direction for now)
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kripcat.eth
@kripcat.eth
I wonder if pre-revolutionary France also had cultural justifications for the inequality. What is the 18th century French equivalent of meritocracy?
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nomygod
@nomygod.eth
i've posted this a few times but i think regular people genuinely have no idea like i don't think they really comprehend even after understanding the information (this is a few years old, it's worse now)
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Lish 🎩🦄🌈😺
@lishousesq4rz
Reminds me of this. Eleon Mùsk
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thoughtcrimeboss
@thoughtcrimeboss
It is amazing we even have data on 1760-90 wealth distribution? I wonder if it is just from tax records, and given that wealthy people have been doing their best to evade taxes since the days of ancient Rome, I would assume that wealth was underreported in prorevolutionary France.
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