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[–] SCB -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You definition: “Income inequality is the difference between highest and lowest earners.” The IMF definition as per your source: “Income Inequality, which refers to the extent to which income is evenly distributed within a population”

This is the same thing written conversationally and professionally.

More to the point, it's clear we're discussing the same thing through context, so why choose this hill to repeatedly die on?

Then again that wouldn’t be possible in the Mercantilistic Economic System we have

You're not serious here right? I don't need to address this? You're not being literal?

I really can’t see how it would be possible to both provide for the life’s essentials for everybody AND have somebody with enough monetary tokens to lay claim to most of the wealth produced in the country (unless we’re talking about worthless dollars, such as the ones in Zimbabwe at some point, in which case most people would be quadrillionaires anyway).

It's important to understand that "lots of paper dollars" does not mean wealth. For instance, here, you conflate having lots of paper dollars with being wealthy while also suggesting that the money is worthless (which is correct), but you're missing that people can still own a significant portion of wealth in a country even if that country is destitute.

Having lots of money doesn't mean you pay claim to lots of wealth. That's backwards. Having lots of wealth is represented by you having easy access to money. Billionaires aren't sitting on vaults full of cash. That would be insanely stupid. Their money is invested.

I'd highly recommend doing some reading on the various aspects you're not understanding here.

[–] Aceticon 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Clearly you so desperatelly need to feel you won an argument that you're critizing the very thing you brought to the discussion (I used "token" up to then because - No Shit Sherlock! - "wealth is not just money", and then you started talking about "dollars" so I went along with it only to be criticised for going along with it) and are figurativelly lying dead on the very hill you hinted I should not die on (way to display a huge lack self-awareness there!) after being disproven by the very link you provided which was meant to prove your statement.

You and your never-ending line of strawmen should probably get a room.

Anyways: I'll leave you with the statisfaction of knowing you won.

I really can't beat you in that shit, that's for sure.