re: #161 ggt

Wealth is also a subjective term.

I think we count things like, not living with bugs as part of being a “developed” nation. Having pasteurized milk and flouridated water. In Roman times, people didn’t keep their teeth.

It’s hard to enumerate? I mean during Roman times the top tier had little compared to what the top 1 percent have today. We should also keep in mind that they had slaves. So we had a range of people that went from slaves (zero earners) to rulers. So the spread is wider now. However, the lower tier is far higher than it was during the Roman Empire.