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Excellent analysis.

But the scariest part is not how unfairly the wealth is distributed.

What is really terrifying is that this distribution is becoming more and more unfair as time goes by. If these proportions and ratios remained the same you could blame it on inevitable genetic differences or economic laws. I have my own theory. Its that the more wealth you have, the more resources you have available to acquire more, to protect what you already have, and to deny it to others.

The rich would like us to believe that the poor deserve to be that way because they are stupid and lazy. They tell those who are becoming poor its because the Communists (or Socialists, or Liberals, or Democrats, or foreigners, or Blacks, or Jews, or the media, or the Hollywood elites, or the college perfessers) are out to take our freedom.

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