nis0s 3 hours ago

This gets brought up a lot because Americans perceive income inequality as a relatively more serious issue, and this perception is relatively more destabilizing for American society.

https://chinadatalab.ucsd.edu/viz-blog/seeing-inequality-in-...

I think this comparison also neglects that the poverty threshold in America is $15/day while in China is 3/day.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/deep-sixing-poverty-in-ch...

It seems the article wants to misrepresent data for the purpose of riling people up.