{"id":23798,"date":"2014-01-23T07:44:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T07:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23798"},"modified":"2014-01-23T07:44:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T07:44:44","slug":"just-ask-yourself-the-question-would-you-like-to-live-in-a-more-unequal-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/23\/just-ask-yourself-the-question-would-you-like-to-live-in-a-more-unequal-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Just ask yourself the question: would you like to live in a more unequal country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/datablog\/2014\/jan\/22\/davos-2014-five-key-data-sets\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian has published an interesting world map <\/a>ranking countries based on the Gini coefficients. This measures inequality: the higher the score he more unequal the spread in the country in question. Grey means no data. Yellow is low inequality. Dark green is a high score:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-23-at-07.38.38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-23799\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-01-23 at 07.38.38\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-23-at-07.38.38-1024x604.png\" width=\"663\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-23-at-07.38.38-1024x604.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-23-at-07.38.38-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-23-at-07.38.38-508x300.png 508w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Screen-shot-2014-01-23-at-07.38.38-200x118.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now ask yourself a simple question. Where would you rather live? In a more or less equal society? Any why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What does that say about what you want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has published an interesting world map ranking countries based on the Gini coefficients. This measures inequality: the higher the score he more unequal<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/01\/23\/just-ask-yourself-the-question-would-you-like-to-live-in-a-more-unequal-country\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}