Ö ist unter den Ländern mit den allerbesten Lebensstandards für Arm als auch Reich in OECD
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Norway’s richest have some of highest living standards of rich people in any country, while Norway’s poorest also fare better than poor people anywhere.
French, Dutch, Austrians, Germans etc also all rank among best living standards whether rich or poor. pic.twitter.com/DSjrdkYLft
— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) September 16, 2022
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Income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia.
Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.
In most developed countries, the distribution of income is ~relatively~ equal, with top 10% earning about 3x as much as bottom 10%. That means the same *relative* standard of living broadly persists across the income distribution.
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Norway’s richest have some of highest living standards of rich people in any country, while Norway’s poorest also fare better than poor people anywhere.
French, Dutch, Austrians, Germans etc. also all rank among best living standards whether rich or poor.
But the income distributions in the UK and particularly the US are much less equal. In the UK, the top 10% earn almost 5x the bottom, and in the US it’s more than 6x. So instead of those lines being near the top from the poorest to the richest, they’re nice and high for the rich, but much lower for the poor. Brits and Americans in the bottom 10% have a far lower standard of living than the poor in the average developed country.
In Norway, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany (you get the idea), you can afford somewhere between a decent and an amazing standard of living whether you’re among poorest or richest.
In the S & UK, life is great if you’re rich, but awful if you’re poor.
And none of this is to say that reducing inequality should come at the expense of economic growth. There is no trade-off here. As you can see from the charts, general economic performance and average living standards are higher in several of these more equal countries than the US.
[https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945](https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945)
und was ist für die weder reich noch Armen? dann ists oarsch? 😀