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That is regrettably low on data. Take a look at countries sorted by Gini coefficient (a measure of wealth inequality): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

Note, for example, that the Nordic countries do very well by this measure. I'm no expert, but why do you think Denmark is a "horrible dystopia, probably accompanied by genocide"?

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You know there is a wealth gini right [0] which has Sweden actually being higher than the US and Denmark 4 spots below it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_we...

Those are very dodgy numbers. Created by one company from patchy and suspicious data, and then just SWAGging the numbers for most of the countries. No peer review. Source data and code both unavailable. And even they say their numbers are "based on the view that wealth inequality is likely to be highly correlated with income inequality", so I think the numbers I used are the better ones for this case.

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