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I‘m really surprised. I always thought that wealth in the Nordish countries are quite equally distributed. Don’t you have a very flat income difference? How it comes?

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I think its because most of the flattening of the income mainly touches the 99% because the income taxation isn’t that effective for owning people as they often get their money from owning stuff instead of earning a salary

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Ah okay. So, Sweden managed to iron the glassfloor to the top. It isn’t possible for standard and even top performers to get to the 1% as they will always rely income with high taxation for a living. With this perspective my country (Germany) seems to be hard but it might be possible.

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We aren’t much better off over here, don’t fool yourself. Don’t make the mistake of buying into the same empty promises of “yes it sucks almost everyone is poor and virtually nobody makes it out, but if i do it right I will” - no you won’t.

Chances for literally winning the lottery are higher than being a hard, honest worker playing by the rules and making it big.

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This is a measure of wealth not income. I’m guessing large land owners?

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Income is not wealth. You can’t become wealthy on any income. That’s the thing.

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