Comment by mrguyorama

>Income inequality is a phrase that pathologizes what appears to be a universal truth. In all types of economic and political systems (after we left the forest, and probably while we were still in the forest), some people have been desperately poor while other people are not. What would be interesting is a single counterexample of sustained "income equality."

There's actually tons of data. Almost every western country has a much better "Gini Coefficient" than the US.

It isn't a universal truth. That's bullshit.