@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoWealth of the 1% of Europei.redd.itimagemessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1345
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoI guess this is going to depend on how you measure, right? What’s the methodology?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoWealth inequality, not income inequality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_wealth_inequality Sweden is 12, US is 25 or something.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoAh, yeah. Gotcha. That tracks, for sure.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•1 year agoFor extra context, we have very high income taxes but none or very low wealth taxes for things like inheritance or owning stocks. Making it cheap to be rich and expensive to work.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoYep. The right really did manage to pull a fast one on Sweden.
I guess this is going to depend on how you measure, right? What’s the methodology?
Wealth inequality, not income inequality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_wealth_inequality Sweden is 12, US is 25 or something.
Ah, yeah. Gotcha. That tracks, for sure.
For extra context, we have very high income taxes but none or very low wealth taxes for things like inheritance or owning stocks. Making it cheap to be rich and expensive to work.
Yep. The right really did manage to pull a fast one on Sweden.