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Distribution of Annual Household Income (from Wikipedia here):
Nobody "decides" the pay-scale, it has always been like the above! What is different lately are the last two vertical-blocks showing revenues to a select-elite who work in the $200K and over range.
Which includes people like Donald-Dork who got started on that track because he was bequeathed by his father over $400M.
And are these "select elite" bad-people? No, they are really quite ordinary American gals-'n-guys who were both clever and lucky!
And of course, they will leave their millions to their kids! Who else? Some of which will try to become PotUS, because - with all that money - they don't know what-in-hell to do with themselves!
Nonetheless, notice on the above chart that below the Poverty Threshold (of $25K earnings per year) live a quarter of those who earn incomes - which is around 20% of the population ...
Nobody "decides" the pay-scale, it has always been like the above! What is different lately are the last two vertical-blocks showing revenues to a select-elite who work in the $200K and over range.
Which includes people like Donald-Dork who got started on that track because he was bequeathed by his father over $400M.
And are these "select elite" bad-people? No, they are really quite ordinary American gals-'n-guys who were both clever and lucky!
And of course, they will leave their millions to their kids! Who else? Some of which will try to become PotUS, because - with all that money - they don't know what-in-hell to do with themselves!
Nonetheless, notice on the above chart that below the Poverty Threshold (of $25K earnings per year) live a quarter of those who earn incomes - which is around 20% of the population ...