Image via WikipediaJoseph E. Stiglitz, writing in the May edition of Vanity Fair has the intriging article about the wealth gap in The United States of America.
"Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret."
The end of this opening extract is worth repeating:
An inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.
see Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
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