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We had plans for that decades ago. What makes anyone think we will follow them now?
In this equation, greed = negative zero. ERROR, ERROR, ERROR...
The aliens who find the bleached remains of our civilization centuries from now will find it a thing of beauty, I'm sure.
They have 0 sources for their data. They mostly cite themselves. You can download the data, but that's just numbers, no telling where those are coming from. Absolute garbage.
I am appalled that these kinds of institutions get public funding.
Yes, they do. The references section is on pages 130-133 in the report...
No?
https://wir2026.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2026/04/World_Inequality_Report_2026.pdf
pages 130 to 133 is about "Chapter 7. Global Taxation of Multi-Millionaires"
Searching for references does bring up something page 206, but again, more half of their sources are just themselves.
Actually the only two external sources are the world inequality report from 2022 and the "real time inequality" by the national bureau of economic research.
References
Alvaredo, F (2018). World Inequality Report 2018. Harvard
University Press.
Alvaredo, Facundo et al. (2022). “The inequality (or the
growth) we measure: Data gaps and the distribution of
incomes”. In: World Inequality Lab, Working Paper Series
2022/07.
Blanchet, Thomas, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman
(2022). “Real-time inequality”. In: National Bureau of
Economic Research.
Chancel, Lucas, Ignacio Flores, et al. (2025). Distributional
National Accounts Guidelines: Methods and Concepts used
in the World Inequality Database. https://wid.world/d
ocument/distributional-national-accounts-dina
-guidelines-2025-methods-and-concepts-used-i
n-the-world-inequality-database/. Version 3.0.
Chancel, Lucas, Thomas Piketty, et al. (2022). World
Inequality Report 2022. Harvard University Press.
Gómez-Carrera, Ricardo et al. (2024). “Global Inequality
Update 2024: New Insights from Extended WID
Macro Series”. In: World Inequality Lab, Technical Notes
2024/11.
Neef, Theresa and Anne-Sophie Robilliard (2021). “Half
the Sky? The Female Labor Income Share in a Global
Perspective”. In: World Inequality Lab, Working Paper
Series 2021/22.
Nievas, Gastón and Thomas Piketty (2025). “WID National
Accounts Series: Updated and Extended Coverage
1800-2023”. I
Did you actually visit the link?
Like, it’s a giant button that says “download the report”.
Ah, I read the other report. Heh.
Doesn't solve the problem that they also don't publish the data for that. But at least that pdf does have sources.
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