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Originally Posted by JaysonAych
I'd read an issue of Time several months back with a chart that showed that in the last several years leading up to the stock market tanking last year, the gap between the super-rich in the upper 1% and the middle and lower classes was at it's highest point since just before the Great Depression. Since the Depression, that gap had been fairly modest until the last several years before the gap exploded open. All this money has just been hoarded or passed along to more of the super-rich...a disproportionately small amount of it is being invested in tangibly strengthening companies and communities here at home or being used to reward hard-working middle-and-lower class workers or improving their benefits and environments. It's been cuts cuts cuts, and moving jobs overseas to satisfy other super-rich investors and to get more executive bonuses.
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You wrote it much better than me. I wish people would wake up and stop accepting this as how it has to be. The game is fixed but there are way more of us than them, we can change it. No one has to be hungry, homeless or living a life of quiet desperation.