the.com/inequality
the slow math where small advantages compound into dynasties and small setbacks into traps
means The state of being unequal — a gap in size, amount, rights, or opportunity between people or things.
from From Latin inaequalitas, built from in- ('not') plus aequalis ('equal'), which comes from aequus, 'level, even, fair' — the same root that gives us 'equator' and 'equity.' English borrowed it through Old French in the late Middle Ages, first describing uneven surfaces and unmatched quantities before it came to weigh the unevenness between human lives.
- Gini index
- One number ranks a nation's wealth gap, 0 to 1
- Pareto's peas
- Italy's wealth law was first spotted in his garden
- Eight men
- Once held half the planet's wealth combined
- Great Gatsby
- A curve linking inequality to frozen social mobility
- Height too
- Poverty stunts growth, visible in skeletons across centuries
gini coefficient — south africa has 0.63, highest in world, measuring income distribution inequality
wealth gap us — top 1% owns 32% of wealth while bottom 50% owns 2.5%, as of 2023
gender pay gap — women earn 84 cents per dollar men earn in us, 2023 data
life expectancy gap — monaco averages 86 years while sierra leone averages 55 years