[jp555]

Does this not just drive people to organize their finances to have less income and more capital gains?

Sweden has a Gini coefficient of 0.867. Only Russia and The Netherlands are higher - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_in...

[Semaphor]

Theoretically it’s supposed to include capital gains, but according to German Wikipedia we use the net salary.

[jp555]

Ah so it's worse for poor people than rich people. Unintended consequences I guess.

[Semaphor]

It’s still better than flat amounts.