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Community => History => Topic started by: finehoe on April 08, 2014, 04:30:47 PM

Title: The New Gilded Age
Post by: finehoe on April 08, 2014, 04:30:47 PM
(http://images.bwbx.io/cms/2014-04-03/econ_onepercentchart15_630.jpg)

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-03/top-tenth-of-1-percenters-reaps-all-the-riches#r=hpf-s
Title: Re: The New Gilded Age
Post by: ronchamblin on April 09, 2014, 02:18:20 AM
The distribution of wealth to the very few, and the condition of near poverty to the masses, will force fundamental reform and change -- changes in our economic, social, political, and legal structures.

Our culture of greed ... our focus on achieving wealth at all costs, our system of bought politicians, has produced an elite class having obscene wealth, and doomed the masses to poverty, or near poverty. 
Title: Re: The New Gilded Age
Post by: IrvAdams on April 09, 2014, 09:53:42 AM
Many think we are headed back to Plutocracy in this country. Rule by the super-rich.
Title: Re: The New Gilded Age
Post by: finehoe on April 09, 2014, 11:28:20 AM
Quote from: IrvAdams on April 09, 2014, 09:53:42 AM
Many think we are headed back to Plutocracy in this country. Rule by the super-rich.

Many more think we're already there.