Notice it started to go up around the Reagan-Thatcher era, when the rich decided they were scared by the freedom of the swinging sixties and that it was time to return to Victorian values. Which we've practically returned to, by the looks of that graph.
By the way, SciAm have something possibly even more horrific on the subject of poverty and the effects you suffer should you happen to have the bad luck to be born poor... http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poverty-shrinks-brains-from-birth1 On 1 April 2015 at 17:26, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > The SciAm article doesn't even begin to describe how great the inequality > is. Like most statistical presentations it divides the population into > quintiles. But that hides the fact that is not the to 20 to 1 percentile > that hold the wealth, it is the tope 1% and even just the top 0.1% > > > > > http://www.voxeu.org/article/exploding-wealth-inequality-united-states > > Brent > > > > > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
