[andrekandre]

it’s certainly preferable, but that is just once slice of data at one time... what is more important is the trend... are we in the midst of a huge reversal back towards those times?

it would seems so, and if so, i would argue it needs to be stopped before it becomes completely intractable...

[povertyworld]

There's a sobering book "The Great Leveler" that argues that the only time growing inequality is reversed is during large scale war or other mass death event like plague.

[FabHK]

Both Thomas Piketty and Branko Milanovic have made similar arguments in their respective tomes. The 1950s to 70s in the West were an exception, maybe.