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After some rather disheartening discussions on these forums, I feel I must ask the question: does anybody care that economic democracy in America is almost gone? Does anyone care that the richest 1% in America control 40% of the nation's wealth, and the next richest 9% control an additional third of the nation's wealth (that's 10% of the country controlling roughly 73% of the wealth of the USA)? Does anyone care that the rising bull market is making us further polarized? For example, from 1996 to 2000, 86% of the stock market's advances went to the wealthiest 10% in the nation. Does anyone care that a CEO in America's average salary is 425 times greater than that of his average worker? Basically, is everyone fine with inequality being at its highest since the 1920s?
*All stats taken from One Market Under God by Thomas Frank*
*All stats taken from One Market Under God by Thomas Frank*