Income Inequality Is Worse Now Than It Was In 1774 - Even factoring in slavery s

[So rightwing that I broke the Political Compass!]

Of course it ing is. The economy in 1774(outside of the South)was largely based on Yeoman farming, and land was not a scarce resource at the time. The South with it's slavery obscures the extent of that- if you only took the North into consideration, it's Gini would probably be lower then ing Scandinavia's.