I didn't know what you meant by, "Ah... So one of the
Chicago Boys" comment. I did take a quick glance but didn't read much.
So chilean society became the richest in Latin America. And there was a rise in economic income inequality, which people complained. I don't know much about the Chilean Economy but I wonder if the criticisms are the same criticisms U.S. make about the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer, which is not true.
For example there is a complaint that the middle class is disappearing which is true, but people are assuming they are getting poorer which is not true. Here is a graph, the middle class and poor are getting richer. Middle is disappearing into the upper class, and poor disappearing into the middle class. There is a growing wealth gap between the top 20% and bottom 20% because more people are in the top 20% today then they were 40 years ago. Quintiles are not equal slices of the population. To reach top 20% you need an income of more than $100,000 a year.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/eco...is-shrinking-and-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing
Also 73% of Americans were in the top 20% ($100,000 or more) at some time in there lives, and about half will experience poverty which they classify the bottom 20%. People aren't stuck in these brackets and people move in and out of them. Which shows great income mobility.
https://www.aei.org/publication/evi...were-in-the-top-20-for-at-least-a-year/print/
Hardly people stay poor or rich for most of their lives, they move up and down depending on education and experience. More likely when your young your at the bottom 20%, and when your older your at the top 20%. Here is a comparison of Americans compared to the world. 56% were in the high income group (more then $50 a day), and 32% were in the upper middle income group ($20-$50). The majority of Americans are well off materially, so much so that obesity and overweight is more common among the poor then the rich. Poor Americans today would be consider well off compared to all Americans in the past, majority of poor have smart phones. Only kings had these luxury in the past minus the phones. And poor is however statisticians want it to mean, poor in the U.S. is what they call middle class in Mexico. U.S. is in the top list with less regulations and more economic freedom and is among the richest countries. Countries with lots of regulations are among the poorest.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/07/09/how-americans-compare-with-the-global-middle-class/
There is a history of countries against middle man minorities like the Chinese in Southeast Asia, Indians and Pakistans in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, and Jews in Europe, where people thought they were oppressing them and rigged the economy against them because they didn't understanding the important role they played as middle men. And when they chased them out their economies collapsed. Jews had the holocaust in Germany. I wonder if the growing rich poor complain in Chile is the same feminist complaint that women are getting payed 76 cents to the dollar a man makes which is not true.