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graffiti art in relation to Mangione found on train Arts/Crafts

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u/softcore_UFO 15d ago edited 15d ago

It’s called the Gini* coefficient

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/426881

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u/floofnstuff 15d ago

Many thanks!

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u/ForecastForFourCats 15d ago

The gini coefficient is a measure of economic inequality.. The US has a similar Gini coefficient to South Africa(last I checked)... a nation pretty fresh out of apartheid.

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u/floofnstuff 15d ago

Holy cow, I knew it was bad but not that bad.

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u/softcore_UFO 15d ago

Yes. The link I posted gives an abstract overview to a piece published by the university of Chicago press twenty years ago exploring the connection between this tenuous line and revolutionary impulses.

Our current Gini coefficient is likely in the mid .40s. The value stated in the piece I linked as “the line” is .38.

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u/Magnatross 15d ago

mangioni coefficient