Income
Distributions in
Three
Countries
Income
Distributions in
Three
Countries
What do each of the income distribution diagrams
have in common?
What do conservatives, liberals, and radicals
see?
Answers:
skewed income distribution towards the top, i.e., the richest 20 percent have far more than their share of their country's wealth
conservatives: rich people have earned their income (individual perspective)
liberals: rich people have earned their income but they should share some of their wealth by way of income taxes with those that are less fortunate (group perspective)
radicals: the rich have exploited the remainder
of the
population, particularly the lowest classes (class perspective)
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Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 1 February 1996.
