If someone posted about a positive experience at a tech conference in New York, I wouldn't expect to see a follow up reminding us about poor people in Tennessee.
Really?
CIA Gini coefficients: US 47.0 (2014), Colombia 53.5 (2012)
Ratio of the average income of the top 10% to the bottom 10%: US 18.5, Colombia 60.4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Granted, this is income not wealth inequality. And there are many ways of measuring it. I would like to know your source.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_distribut... for wealth ginis.
I'm sure there are lots of different measures that give lots of different results. My point was just that the US and Colombia aren't radically different in terms of economic inequality.
What if you take into account the non-linear value of money, though? This seems to be missing in most accounts of inequality.
The goal is places like Denmark.
South America in general has serious inequality problems.
When everyone's at the bottom, there's little wealth inequality