@DiegoBeghin @MisuseCase @Alon @kentwillard I think probably the Gini has gone down but the top 1% share has gone up. As I've said, the EU is doing better at convergence than the globe as a whole, and better than in a counterfactual where the EU did not expand, sure. But it is hardly on a glide path towards cosmopolitan egalitarianism, in the same way that the even more geographically converged United States risks collapse to fascism. 1/

@DiegoBeghin @MisuseCase @Alon @kentwillard Convergence to highly economically and geographically polarized norm will not constitute durable or sustainable success (unless we don't score authoritarianism as failure). You won't just get everybody to move to superstar cities, so you'd better find ways to include populations that don't in a shared prosperity and identity. /fin