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America is now the most unequal society in the developed world. Our billionaires are the richest, and our poor people are the poorest of any functioning democracy on Earth (hartmannreport.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The title implies we haven't been the most unequal society for the better part of a century.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From the start, right? Like chattel slavery and settler colonialism is about as unequal as you can get

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah. Even my comment is understating things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

yeah it was literally always that way

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

The article is written by a lib, so have to account for the biases there.