inequality

It's true that income inequality is generally associated with poor countries but the USA is clearly an outlier.

Inequality of opportunity is a much bigger problem than inequality of, say, income.

The tension brewing up in various parts of the country is a sign of the inequality and corruptness in the system.

Probably the same kind of people who say that relative wealthy/income inequality does not matter, when discussing other topics.

A major problem while discussing inequality is that many lose objectivity and start blaming X/Y party.

Would this create a system not just with unequal outcomes, but with inequality by design?

It just took a few decades of the natural self-reinforcing loops of capital to highlight the inequality that was already there.

In US where income inequality has risen to greater proportions and the city budgets stagnated.

In other words, the rich would have a greater incentive to spend it while they are alive, which merely increases consumption inequality.

If they study went one step further and showed how those micro decisions aggregated into macro inequality, that would be interesting to me as well.

Upward mobility is on the decrease and inequality on the increase.

GDP per capita is a weak measure since america has high inequality, some people in america are as poor and hungry as the worst conditions in africa.

And in America, "socialism" has come to refer to anything that involves redistributing wealth, providing social safety net(s), or otherwise trying to actively manage social inequality.

Post-WW2 America had less income inequality than now, but it was far from a "very level and equal society." In 1945, the share of the total income of the richest 1% was 11.07%, while in 2014 it was 17.85%.

Article doesn't even tell me directly why I should care besides "poverty and inequality" while a couple of paragraphs before stating "34 percent said they didn't find the Internet relevant to them".

Inequality may be a problem in the future, but that is a solvable problem so long as they are willing to work hard.

Inequality of power and social immobility are marks of servitude.