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Quite Interesting
@qi.com

Income inequality is higher in the US today than it was in 1774, even if you factor in slavery.

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Kym In A Can
@kymtastic.bsky.social

Interesting. That isn't the source itself, that's a link to a paywalled link to the source, which you can read here: www.nber.org/papers/w18396 tl;dr Less inequality because Americans were "relatively poor together" (quoting the Atlantic there, not the og paper) and had low financial mobility.

nber.orgAmerican Incomes 1774-1860Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...