Talk:Causes of income inequality in the United States

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• From Income inequality in the United States: CBO-Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2008, p. 20
• From Austerity: CBO-Infographic-The Effects of Fiscal Tightening-August 2012

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It's okay AnomieBOT, you're doing your Best! Waffle Attack411 (talk) 13:16, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Wrong chart

U.S. real wages remain below their 1970's peak.

This needs to be replaced with a chart of total compensation because according to the same source that produced this chart, most economist have long known that total compensation is the correct measure to use. The St. Louis Fed has various versions of total compensation charts.Phmoreno (talk) 02:44, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

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Not rationally developed

I recommend following classical economics and dividing income into returns to labor and returns to capital.

Returns to labor have an economic cause: how much value can a worker add. Similarly, returns to capital depend on how effectively it is employed.

Build the rest of the discussion from these fundamentals.Phmoreno (talk) 02:10, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of Great Divergence (inequality) with Causes of income inequality in the United States

Both articles are on fairly similar topics (the other article says it's about a term in the first paragraph but the rest of it is just about the phenomenon) so there isn't really much reason to have two separate articles here from what I can see. Maybe this can be moved to a better title (I see Wealth ineq. in US also links here, so maybe drop the income at least?) but one thing at a time? Alpha3031 (t • c) 05:08, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Weak support: Looks to me like Great Divergence is more of a book than common term. Per WP:NB "Great Divergence" barely meets the notability guideline for an article (it has multiple reviews). But then per WP:PAGEDECIDE I think the subject matter is better handled in a broader article. Earlsofsandwich (talk) 17:23, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

• Support Agree with Earlofsandwich, but a single merged article will be of more use to a reader than this current situation, and a non geographic restricted subject allows a more general look, as the issue is not limited only to the US. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 11:12, 3 November 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose as the articles are about clearly distinct topics. This article concerns the United Sates, the second has global scope. This article is not bounded by time, the other focusses on the dramatic rise in inequality that started in the late 1970s, in contrast to the earlier Great Compression seen in the middle 3rd of the 20th century. So there's a scope clash. A merge would mean we'd no longer have an article that would allow coverage of periods of rising US inequality in the first decades of the 20th century & earlier. Also, either huge chunks of this article would have to be deleted, or the resulting merge would be heavilly over-weighted for the US rather than global coverage. Rising inequality is a global problem, and per strong strong evidence that inequality is harmful to the poor & even the rich, it would serve the reader better to follow the lead of WP:RS and treat noteable aspects of the Inequality problem in seperate dedicated articles. FeydHuxtable (talk) 14:24, 16 November 2024 (UTC)