[Veelox]

Your making a pretty broad claim with no evidence. Can you provide some evidence?

[webdood90]

This is pretty well accepted information.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/economic-inequali...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/06/how-r...

https://time.com/6267552/falling-american-inequality/

[Veelox]

Just because it's widely accepted doesn't mean it's correct.

Paywall link Paywall link Makes a slight case but mostly just assumes inequality is bad.

[morbicer]

I know US history education isn't greatest but you might have heard about French revolution, rise of Nazism or various communism uprisings, Mexican revolution in 1910s.

With better outcomes for society: labor movement at the turn of century and in 30s.

More recently: Arab spring, Chile 2019

[creer]

French revolution for one was not about income inequality per se. It doesn't seem the idea itself was in people's mind - and too many other issues instead.

[Veelox]

I think it's a big stretch to point to all of those and say wealth inequality is the main reason all of those happen. For example, people were starving around the French revolution. With Germany I believe it was just as much (if not more) general depression and national embarrassment rather than wealth inequality. With Arab Spring you can point to poor leadership as opposed to innate wealth inequality. I'm not convinced wealth inequality is the underlying reason.