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		JMTQp8lwXL on July 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chin... I don't think we'd be able to infer the wealth distribution from GDP per capita, either. Total GDP tied with the Gini coefficient might tell a reasonable story. But the premise of Gini Index of 1 leaving all people too poor to invest directly in U.S. Real Estate makes sense. I'm pretty confident that China's wealth distribution is far from perfectly equal among all citizens.

rahimnathwani on July 18, 2019 [–]

"I don't think we'd be able to infer the wealth distribution from GDP per capita"

Yup, totally agree with this and the overall point you were making in your comments.

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