[OC] Where the wealth is concentrated in the world.

I beg you to stop viciously circlejerking because this is a graph of wealth and not income. Wealth as defined as assets minus liabilities is not very useful in addressing actual inequality on a worldwide scale. If I have a paid off house and a retirement fund in India, I'd be placed significantly lower than someone in the same situation in the US, even after PPP and converting to inflation adjusted dollar. And a min wage worker with 25k in student debt will be significantly higher on this scale than a med school grad with 250k in debt. And some family in rural china with no debt will be higher than either of those people.

Don't use the pragerU boomers to disregard anyone with issues with these measurements. If you want to address global inequality, you'll have to base your analysis on metrics that capture the plight of the people accurately. Not ones that pander to first world young adults and tell them they are the poorest in the world. Taking on debt is a privilege in large parts of the West, so its surprising to see them not spotting this flaw.

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