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.
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/softcore_UFO 15d ago edited 15d ago
It’s called the Gini* coefficient
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/426881