This is Extreme Wealth Inequality: How Does One Fix This?

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17. Study: 92 percent prefer Swedish model (of wealth distribution) to US model when given a choice

According to research (PDF) carried out by Michael I. Norton of Harvard Business School and Dan Ariely of Duke University, and flagged by Paul Kedrosky at the Infectious Greed blog, 92 percent of Americans would choose to live in a society with far less income disparity than the US, choosing Sweden’s model over that of the US.

What’s more, the study’s authors say that this applies to people of all income levels and all political leanings: The poor and the rich, Democrats and Republicans are all equally likely to choose the Swedish model.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/25/poll-wealth-distribution-similar-sweden/

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Of course to achieve a Swedish level of wealth distribution we would need progressive Swedish policies.

Sweden: Where tax goes up to 60 per cent, and everybody's happy paying it

Around seventy percent of the Swedish labour force is unionised

In many other ways Sweden's progressive policies add up to a much more equitable distribution of wealth and income.