As you can see from the chart, the actual distribution of wealth is weighted heavily toward the top 20%, whereas most Americans would prefer to see the majority of wealth much more evenly distributed.

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The differences were not weighted by population size, based on the assumption that differences in the distribution of resources matter regardless of the size of the population.

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