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I'm not sure that demonstrates anything. That just demonstrates that people work different jobs than they did back then; it doesn't tell us anything about wealth distribution.
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Nowadays service jobs are externalized. Try to compare how big chunk of the population are in service industries now and then.

Back then they had a private coachman and now you have an independent contractor with the Uber app.

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We've always have public coachmen and public bars and restaurants. The fact that there are many more now only means a lot more people can afford them.
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21% of US jobs are service occupations. All you've really done is establish that cars exist so the wealthy have deemed it no longer necessary to allow filthy peasants to live in their mansions.
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That's an unusual measure -- and I like it. I wonder what those percentages are in very wealthy communities in America, e.g. Greenwich and surroundings, Nantucket, Hamptons plus labor communities west.
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