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"Incomes were more equally distributed in colonial America than in any other place that can be measured"

If you weren't a slave.

Stopped reading right there. hahahahahahahahaha.

Perhaps you shouldn't comment when you haven't read the post then. If you had, you would have learned that Lindert and Williamson's analysis did account for the income of slaves. Five of the eighteen paragraphs of this short article about their work discusses that part of the analysis.

Comparing colonial America to today's free societies is laughable no matter how they "account" for the work of enslaved people.

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