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The US is so inequal that anything else on that plot is impossible to interpret. That’s why the US is relevant to mention here. Although this does not apply exclusively to the US.

OP then mentions that inequality has not risen in the last 20 years in Europe which is wrong, but not visible in the plot,

1. because it selectively focuses on only one metric
2. because next to the US even an uptrend looks marginal

And I mean it’s not even wrong in a sense that there is different ways to see it, it’s just wrong in a way that OP is actually spreading false information.

Regarding Piketty yeah I hope some people actually read that, glad you did!

You obviously did not look at the data they used as source

Because it’s not worth engaging with this person I just copy paste my answer to the other place where they posted this.

Thanks for linking a source but this is a misleading interpretation, please don’t try to argue with data if you don’t know how to interpret it.

You need to look at e.g. the top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% to get a proper idea. And then look at it country by country because the scales don’t match. Yes, the USA are extremely inequal, I think back to like 1913 level in 2013 or something like that iirc, so if you put them on a plot with e.g. France, France will look great.

But if you look at France alone you get a different picture and inequality is rising again since the 80s. Here’s an article by a French economist with research focus on inequality which cites the same data: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/09/24/global-inequality-in-historical-perspective-part-1/

There is no desired narrative. There is data and I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt but you seem to be actually incapable of interpreting it correctly.

Sounds awesome

For the children

So is this basically saying the NSA could easily run MITM on the Signal AWS servers?

I am assuming it’s true unless proven otherwise just because I’m paranoid, but I don’t have enough technical knowledge to understand how you would pull it off exactly if there’s alleged E2EE.

There should be a Monero based platform for this

Oh yeah I hadn’t seen your comment thanks for also pointing that out.

Thanks for linking a source but this is a misleading interpretation, please don’t try to argue with data if you don’t know how to interpret it.

You need to look at e.g. the top 10%, middle 40% and bottom 50% to get a proper idea. And then look at it country by country because the scales don’t match. Yes, the USA are extremely inequal, I think back to like 1913 level in 2013 or something like that iirc, so if you put them on a plot with e.g. France, France will look great.

But if you look at France alone you get a different picture and inequality is rising again since the 80s. Here’s an article by a French economist with research focus on inequality which cites the same data: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/09/24/global-inequality-in-historical-perspective-part-1/

Makes sense, everyone loves drugs

Some really ugly guy in my high school class was scoring with no limits. Absolute legend. Like he was really ugly, not particularly tall, maybe like 1,70m and not ripped or anything. Idk what his secret sauce was. It wasn’t limited to our school, it also worked with complete strangers. Women just loved him and until today I don’t understand. But it gave me hope, I know he’s out there somewhere, dating beautiful women for all of us.