Yes, but they also put Qatar very high so I am assuming they took some liberty in deciding who is part of the society and who is not. So perhaps not the best source, although I remember that Belgium is often quite high in these rankings.
One of the worst charts I’ve seen in terms of readability 🤣
In Belgium, everyone is equally poor. No matter what your gross is, or even without working, you’re going to net between 2 – 4k.
No, THE most egalitarian (sometimes losing out to Australia)
Damn that is a bad graph. It needs some Edward Tufte magic done to it.
Impossible! Don’t they realize Belgium is a failed state?
That is because we have that many taxes. It is a great equalizer.
How do they determine this? Isn’t wealth unmeasured in most countries?
For all the flaws of our taxation system at least the distribution of wealth is something they did more or less right.
Again, the Gini index is mainly based on income equality. Salaries, dividends, interest.
There is no measurement of actual wealth, generational established riches; where most of the wealth is concentrated in assets. A significant portion of their income is asset based and not taken into account.
Effectively what this is telling us is that we have strong social programs and a relatively stable economy.
Everyone is equally poor.
The fact qatar is up there shows how bad this graph is.
But to be fair using foreign slaves means they arent used to calculate the wealth inequality amongst the population since the slaves arent quatari citizens
Everyone is being screwed by the tax the same way. Yay!
In South Africa you can leave your gated estate in your Mercedes and drive about 10min to and area with thousands of others living in shacks. Belgium is pretty good. Also this graph sucks.
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Yes, but they also put Qatar very high so I am assuming they took some liberty in deciding who is part of the society and who is not. So perhaps not the best source, although I remember that Belgium is often quite high in these rankings.
One of the worst charts I’ve seen in terms of readability 🤣
In Belgium, everyone is equally poor. No matter what your gross is, or even without working, you’re going to net between 2 – 4k.
No, THE most egalitarian (sometimes losing out to Australia)
Damn that is a bad graph. It needs some Edward Tufte magic done to it.
Impossible! Don’t they realize Belgium is a failed state?
That is because we have that many taxes. It is a great equalizer.
How do they determine this? Isn’t wealth unmeasured in most countries?
For all the flaws of our taxation system at least the distribution of wealth is something they did more or less right.
Again, the Gini index is mainly based on income equality. Salaries, dividends, interest.
There is no measurement of actual wealth, generational established riches; where most of the wealth is concentrated in assets. A significant portion of their income is asset based and not taken into account.
Effectively what this is telling us is that we have strong social programs and a relatively stable economy.
Everyone is equally poor.
The fact qatar is up there shows how bad this graph is.
But to be fair using foreign slaves means they arent used to calculate the wealth inequality amongst the population since the slaves arent quatari citizens
Everyone is being screwed by the tax the same way. Yay!
In South Africa you can leave your gated estate in your Mercedes and drive about 10min to and area with thousands of others living in shacks. Belgium is pretty good. Also this graph sucks.
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