[Olderguy]

Perception and dogma trumps research and facts?

I was trying to find the most accurate, non-partisan and up-to-date information about worldwide income wealth distribution and came across a concept called the Gini Coefficient. At 0, it's perfectly balanced (the socialist dream) and at 100 it's perfectly imbalanced (which nobody wants, because the poor will have no money to buy the goods and services that the rich want to sell).

1980 was the peak and it's been declining since.
https://wir2022.wid.world/chapter-2/
https://www.axios.com/2023/06/14/glo...mic-inequality
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/globa...lity-boomerang

This type of stuff changes and could boomerang the other way, but presently it appears that wealth has been more widely distributed over time starting with the 1980's.

So now what's left? The "not fair" argument? Maybe, but that not being fair has lifted billions of people out of poverty.

I did some digging on my own and it turns out you're correct..Covid changed the statistics downward..I think that's where my awareness was coming from...These wars are bringing more visibility to the starvation and famine issues. However I wonder how the lack of grain from Ukraine will be change this down the road.