When I was in high school, graduating in 1963, I read a book called "How To Lie With Statistics", which I believe is still in print. Your "inequality" graf would make an excellent illustration. Your graph ranges from 20% to 50%. But percents actually range from, well, 0 to 100. So the apparent size of increases/decreases in percent of income to top 10% folks is more than tripled. Add in the fact that life is incomparably BETTER for almost everyone today than in 1945--not really a good year for anyone, especially for Denmark and Norway--and the whole thing starts to look a bit ridiculous. Yes, it's tough being poor in the U.S. today, but I suspect it beats being a black sharecropper in 1945.
1) Income Equality in the US vs Scandinavia is like one of those state level charts on teen pregnancy where you can spot the Confederacy, except you can find Reagan's bloody fingerprints.
2) "There is a common thread that… you can call… “liberalism”… but… it’s just modernity." Alternatively, the owners keep on fighting to avoid sharing. The what they keep clutching to changes with time.
When I was in high school, graduating in 1963, I read a book called "How To Lie With Statistics", which I believe is still in print. Your "inequality" graf would make an excellent illustration. Your graph ranges from 20% to 50%. But percents actually range from, well, 0 to 100. So the apparent size of increases/decreases in percent of income to top 10% folks is more than tripled. Add in the fact that life is incomparably BETTER for almost everyone today than in 1945--not really a good year for anyone, especially for Denmark and Norway--and the whole thing starts to look a bit ridiculous. Yes, it's tough being poor in the U.S. today, but I suspect it beats being a black sharecropper in 1945.
1) Income Equality in the US vs Scandinavia is like one of those state level charts on teen pregnancy where you can spot the Confederacy, except you can find Reagan's bloody fingerprints.
2) "There is a common thread that… you can call… “liberalism”… but… it’s just modernity." Alternatively, the owners keep on fighting to avoid sharing. The what they keep clutching to changes with time.