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host · 03-08-2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jorgelito

But "fair share" can be tricky to assess. It is subjective.

how are these CIA "fact book" statistics, "subjective"?

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https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/sw.html
Sweden

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.7%
highest 10%: 20.1% (1992)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
25 (2000)

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https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/ja.html
Japan

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 4.8%
highest 10%: 21.7% (1993)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
38.12 (2002)

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https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/gm.html
Germany

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.6%
highest 10%: 25.1% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
28.3 (2000)

Contrast the "share" of the bottom 10 percent, with that of the top ten percent, and the GINI index number, of the three above countries, with the data of the three countries, displayed below......

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https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/br.html
Brazil

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 0.7%
highest 10%: 31.27% (2002)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
56.7 (2005)

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https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/mx.html
Mexico

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.6%
highest 10%: 35.6% (2002)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
54.6 (2000)

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https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications...k/geos/us.html
United States

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1.8%
highest 10%: 30.5% (1997)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
45 (2004)

Can a politcal philosophy, or a politcal party, sustain itself by embracing the idea that the distribution of wealth in the US is fairer, or sounder for the politcal status quo, if it matches the arrangements in Mexico and Brazil, closer than those of Germany, Sweden, and Japan? Is the top ten percent in the US Mexico, and Japan, better off, from a security and politcal influence standpoint, goinf forward....than the top ten percent in Japan, Sweden, and Germany?

Are the lower class inhabitants of the US. Mexico,and Brazil, lazier, or less productive, than their counterparts in Sweden, Germany, and Japan.

Are the top ten percent in the US, Brazil, and Mexico, smarter, or more productive...or are they simply, and probably temoporarily, in possession of more politcal influence than their counterparts in Japan, Germany and Sweden?