"all demographic groups—even those not usually associated with wealth redistribution such as Republicans and the wealthy—desired a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo" - Simon

It's possible that this is true for most countries, though. - Private Sanjeev

According to the report it seems that most American prefer the Swedish distribution of wealth. I wonder if the Swedes also do. - Simon

Dan Ariely and his co-author do confound economic mobility in the way they ask the survey though: "imagine that if you joined this nation, you would be randomly assigned to a place in the distribution, so you could end up anywhere in this distribution, from the very richest to the very poorest.” So some participants may feel that the country has little economic mobility and would want to hedge their bets by suggesting a more equal distribution. So I'm not sure how much to read into this report. Apparently they are working on another study to tease apart that issue. - Simon