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The fact that there isn't a revolution happening in the US right now is crazy (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

partially because total wealth is much higher?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is overall distribution by percentage, so aggregate total represented wouldn’t have an impact. If it were to have an impact, I think we’d have hoped it would mean the slope was more even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

This is overall distribution by percentage, so aggregate total

what I mean is that if total land area is 1 acre, and 80% of people own 1% of the land, they're starving
if total land area is 5000 acres, and 80% of people (same population size) own 1% of the land, then everyone is well fed on the same inequality