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too important to miss,
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How unequal is too unequal?

How unequal is the USA really?

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c2e6353ef017c316453d6970b-pi

(Thanks to B. Leiter)

PS
Question for Americans:  And, why, really, should twenty percent of the
population control 30 per cent of the wealth?  Don't you know they don't get
it all by their individual effort?  They do not get what they have because they make a positive contribution.  There is generally an inverse relationship between actual contribution and actual wealth.  Or, at any rate, the more wealth, the less actual production of anything positive.  (Computers are neither positive nor negative; but in the current set-up, they
are mostly negative.  Ditto for any bit of so-called progress.)