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Art_from_Ark

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9. There are plutocrats in Argentina as well
Wed Jun 13, 2012, 12:32 AM
Jun 2012

For example, in 2006, incomes of the top 10% Argentines were 43 times higher than the bottom 10%.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/americas/25argentina.html?_r=1

The GINI indexes of the US and Argentina are practically the same.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2172.html

Argentina has also had its share of not only economic, but political turmoil as well.

I have known people who lived in Argentina. One family fled the country for economic reasons during the Peron regime, but the matriarch of that family generally agreed with the subsequent military junta's detentions and disappearances of dissidents (the "desaparecidos&quot . A different family had fled because of the both the unstable economic situation and the dictatorship. Although the country's situation today may be somewhat better politically, there is no way that I would want to emulate it. The Japanese model would be far better.

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