{"id":3060,"date":"2010-10-07T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politics.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2010-10-07T13:49:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:49:46","slug":"perceived-wealth-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/perceived-wealth-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceived wealth distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a very interesting article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money\/\">real and perceived wealth distribution in the US<\/a>.   The core information consists of this this graph:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/americans-are-horribly-misinformed-about-who-has-money\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pre.cloudfront.goodinc.com\/posts\/post_full_1285695177Realvs.ImaginedWealthDistributionintheU.jpeg\" title=\"US Wealth Distribution\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"468\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note how the poorest 40% of the American population own so little that they aren&#8217;t even visible, but most people believe they own almost 10% of the nation&#8217;s wealth.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also interesting that everybody &ndash; even rich people and Republicans &ndash; believe wealth ought to be spread out much more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to see an equivalent graph for the UK and other European countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw a very interesting article about the real and perceived wealth distribution in the US. The core information consists of this this graph: Note how the poorest 40% of the American population own so little that they aren&#8217;t even visible, but most people believe they own almost 10% of the nation&#8217;s wealth. It&#8217;s also interesting that everybody &ndash; even rich people and Republicans &ndash; believe wealth ought to be spread out much more. I&#8217;d love to see an equivalent graph for the UK and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}