Inequality is an increasing function of population size, so it probably went down some due to COVID. the reason is that for many things there is only value in being the best or within the top finite number in the population. Being top x percent isn’t good enough, even 0.1% with sufficiently large populations. For example: spectator sports, politics, movie stars, the first to discover relativity, semiconductors... and those finite toppers capture a larger and larger percentage of aggregate value as population size grows. In the limit all value is captured by an infinite number of toppers across an infinite number of dimensions to top.
this also manifests in evolution where all but a finitely many mutants survive a catastrophic change in the environment and the rest perish.
this also manifests in evolution where all but a finitely many mutants survive a catastrophic change in the environment and the rest perish.