2022 World Inequality Report

Not surprising the top 1% grew richer & owned more while the bottom 50% grew poorer & owned less. It would appear that the world is backsliding toward more inequality.

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The share of the bottom 50% of the world in total global wealth is 2% by their estimates, while the share of the top 10% is 76%. Since wealth is a major source of future economic gains, and increasingly, of power and influence, this presages further increases in inequality.

The wealth of the top 10% globally, which constitutes the middle class in rich countries and the merely rich in poor countries is actually growing slower than the world average, but the top 1% is growing much faster: between 1995 and 2021, the top 1% captured 38% of the global increment in wealth, while the bottom 50% captured a frightening 2%. The share of wealth owned by the global top 0.1% rose from 7% to 11% over that period and global billionaire wealth soared. With the boom in the stock market, the picture does not seem to be getting better.

Average national incomes tell us little about inequality
The world map of inequalities (Figure 3) reveals that national average income levels are poor predictors of inequality: among high-income countries, some are very unequal (such as the US), while other are relatively equal (e.g. Sweden). The same is true among low- and middle-income countries, with some exhibiting extreme inequality (e.g. Brazil and India), somewhat high levels (e.g. China) and moderate to relatively low levels (e.g. Malaysia, Uruguay).

Contemporary global inequalities are close to early 20th century levels, at the peak of Western imperialism

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Not surprising the top 1% grew richer & owned more while the bottom 50% grew poorer & owned less. It would appear that the world is backsliding toward more inequality.

In general, the more acceptable it is for SOMEONE (doesn’t matter who) to use force and fraud in the name of controlling the distribution of wealth, the more unequal the distribution of wealth is and the stronger the trend toward greater inequality.

And of course the only possible way to address that inequality is to accept someone - the government - using even more force and fraud in the name of controlling the distribution of wealth.