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Yes history. If you ignore the clickbait headlines designed to elicit rage, and the news feeds designed to spiral you into a cycle of fear, and just google "poverty graph" to find raw data sources you'll find it's generally a good trend like https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/dataviz-remake-fall-ext...

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What I mean is the problem with wealth gaps is historically they typically get remedied with violent revolution.

Or appeased with a tiny fraction of the total gains - just enough to keep a middle class happily with their basic little toys while wealth inequality grows.

This could easily be the same, except the toy is "you don't have to work anymore and here's some houses and robot chefs! Now play nice while the adults go build star fleets"

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