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kortillatoday at 6:03 PM1 replyview on HN

> Paradoxically, "developed" nation inequality has hit 1920s levels.

That’s not a paradox. Inequality is a completely separate measurement that emerges anywhere there are extremely wealthy people despite the average population doing really well.

A high density of tech billionaires in California doesn’t prevent a regular family in Tennessee from putting food on their table. Poverty rates would.


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pixl97today at 7:28 PM

>A high density of tech billionaires in California doesn’t prevent

I put this in the case of 'eh, maybe'. Not a definite yes or no. The particular place where this breaks is asset ownership and other forms of VC fuckery that start raising the costs for everything around the country.