Yes, there are countless way to measure these metrics, thank you for taking the time to explain this. Also, in this particular area of Europe are some of the best wealth distributed areas on Earth.

This does not make it okay though, as you point out yourself. As fascism grows in power this wealth gap will continue to grow as it has in all but one place in Europe for a little amount of time. I believe it was Slovakia, but it had been awhile since I read about it.

Currently this wealth gap is increasing in the entire world which has lead me to the conclusion along with other research that fascism has captured the world’s economy and has for some time.

Fascism doesn’t have a real left/right ideology either, but it will happily stroke the far right since their message is so effective due to propaganda. Fascism represents the monied interests and in theory if these entities were altruistic we would be living in a different world. So ultimately it is a cultural problem rather than a system issue which in a lot of ways is a bitter pill to swallow.

This does raise the question of inevitability. Will capitalism and fascism inherently lead to these wealth gaps that allow monied interests almost complete control of government policy. So far it appears so.

Is this a bad thing? I tend to believe yes due to several major issues with the top being environmental degredation and the next being arms proliferation. Human suffering due to these two issues is enormous and there doesn’t appear to be a way to counterbalance this.

https://nltimes.nl/2026/05/06/rich-get-richer-dutch-tax-system-widens-income-disparities

"Between 2011 and 2019, the wealthiest 0.01 percent of households’ income increased by over 70 percent, "

You got me excited for a second, but I have already done this

“wealth inequality is high, where the richest 10% hold 56% of the total wealth (as of early 2025 data), compared to the bottom 90% sharing the rest.”

Also, the Dutch are fascist as fuck. Not as in fascism = bad but as in fadcism = corporatism.

https://newint.org/migration/2025/can-dutch-fight-fascism-head

As far as explaining what the dominant form of culture means here is an article based off the movie corporation. Obviously this is a US perspective, but all my research indicates that corporations are dominating all of Europe as well.

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/a-critical-look-at-the-corporations-dominant-role-in-society/

I never said fascism is the only cause of inequality. It is the evolution of corporatism which I believe has evolved into a corportocracy. The revolving door between private and public and regulatory capture have created the reality that corporations are the ones crafting and getting the majority of all policy passed around the world. While in the US is extreme at almost 90% of all policy, in Europe it is slightly better with 70-80% of all policy.

This is what dominant means.

Lol that is hilarious 😂

So then you can provide no example. As I have researched, there is no nation currently that has the trend of reducing the wealth gap. I understand you do not view this as proof and that is okay.

I brought up the fact that corporations are currently the dominant social construct in our society regardless of country. You can agree or disagree.

Thank you for responding, but please provide evidence of a country without an ever widening wealth gap or go home.

I get you don’t understand fascism. It is okay. As Mussolini put it is corporatism. The evolution of corporatism is a corportocracy. Corporations are the dominant form of all social constructs currently regardless of governments or cultures.

I also understand you are under the illusion that any country that exists provides the rights that human beings deserve. There is no country that exists that deserves humanity.

I produced evidence, I don’t speak other languages so my ability to conduct this type of research in other countries is limited. As I explained, my personal metric is an ever growing wealth gap.

Since I have provided evidence and I have done extensive research let’s turn this around. Please provide evidence of a country without an ever growing wealth gap and maybe I will believe we are not living in a fascist world.

Please, that is just the tip of the iceberg. I will gladly bring receipts.

They have done similar studies around the world. From my research the biggest indicator is a wealth gap. While this alone does not confirm fascism what does is an ever increasing wealth gap where an extreme minority of the population owns the majority of wealth.

You are probably right, I was just being silly pointing out other “watermarks” corporations do.

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba

No, I reject your musing. Numerous studies have shown the will of the people is a false premise. We live in a fascist world that uses democracy as a window dressing for oligarchy.

I was just commenting that pre-Trumplethinskin is an imaginary state as the US was fascist before we had a name for it. You can’t harken back to a supposed better time when it never existed except inside the head of a misinformed person.

But the black box told us to do it, it is not our fault. This has got to be the dumbest timeline ever, but wait.

I know. Let’s build a white supremacist black box and then let it give us orders that way we aren’t racist. Oh darn, Muskrat was a step ahead and did that already.

Sent with an iPhone, duuuurrrrr

Did you remember to drive your Cybercuck a couple of miles backwards so the wheels don’t fall off? - Superior engineers at the Nazi Car Factory.

Meh, the US was founded by a bunch of slave owning wealthy protofascist genocidal fucks. You can’t really recover from country designed by the wealthy for the wealthy.

This was such a disgusting display.

It is not just MAGA literally the whole world is fascist. This is why Antifacists are so hated amongst leaders of the world.

Did you forgot about the World Trade protests? Antifacists are at odds with the entire business world AKA big money. The leaders of the world cannot let this movement catch on.

Shhh, your not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

I think you are right about WWII not being fought for higher ideals. That is the propaganda we got later on. Also, the connection between Nazism and the US is way stronger than you allude to. Ford and other industrialists helped bankroll the Nazi empire. Nazism was very popular in the US back then.

The US were not the good guys by any means. Those same wealthy industrialists lobbied against taking in the Jews when Hitler decided to expel them. They also helped reinforce anti-Jewish sentiment and made sure no one else would take the Jews in.

US companies like IBM gave material support to the Nazi as well. They developed the census system that was used to tattoo Jewish prisoners and then later helped out with the logistical efforts to make sure the optimal amount of Jews could be executed without backing up the trains.

As many people here on Lemmy are found of pointing out it was really Russia that did the heavy lifting of defeating the Nazi. The US showed up to take credit for solving the problem they helped create.