Citation needed.<p>Certainly for &quot;99%&quot; + &quot;extreme poverty&quot;.<p>Most of other claims are weasel-y. You could say the same about a lot of countries who then figured themselves out.<p>&quot;the level of... political inequality that noone these days can understand or accept&quot; is especially fun to read for a citizen of Putinist post-Soviet Russia. I not only understand political inequality but also experience levels of it that exceed what 1914 had to offer. For example, they had real Duma with real parties! That didn&#x27;t always vote the same!<p>Hundred years passed and yet today we are far worse off.