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by malwarebytess 1973 days ago
Obligatory we are at higher inequality than immediately before the French Revolution. Wonder what that means?

Some interesting reading:

Professor Walter Scheidel examines the history of peace and economic inequality over the past 10,000 years - https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/24/stanford-historian-unco...

Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality - https://www.jstor.org/stable/2777764?seq=1