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You're looking at income inequality, not wealth inequality. While Sweden has relatively low income inequality, it has extremely high wealth inequality.

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> While Sweden has relatively low income inequality, it has extremely high wealth inequality.

The wealth is old industrial and aristocratic money. Salaried people don't accumulate wealth.


Indeed. The low income inequality is in many ways a contributing factor to the high wealth inequality, since it is virtually impossible to become wealthy in Sweden just by working hard and earning a salary.

Virtually no 'normal' jobs have a salary much above $200k. Whereas in the US that salary is quite achievable for a lot of people by just working your way up in a normal corporation. Even CEO salaries in the biggest Swedish companies rarely break $1m and if you break $2m you have among the very highest salaries in Sweden.


Ah, excuse my imprecision!




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