Wealth Inequality in America

Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is. References: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph http://danariely.com/2010/09/30/wealth-inequality/ http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334156/top-five-wealthiest-one-percent/ http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/19/news/economy/ceo-pay/index.htm

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1. Republicans have historically felt a compulsion to teach people lessons they're too knuckle-dragging ignorant to be born with. Republican business owners, many of them completely believe they're helping their employees by underpaying them. Makes em tougher for life's problems. And if they could pay people $.50 cents an hour they would do it, be good for us.
   
   Some of them are Jewish but I've also encountered it from Catholics and Baptists. When they slash employee wages it makes them look good at the Sunday services placing more money in the donation plates. Them's the facts. Anyone has a Bible this is summed up at Psalm 119:71 if memory serves. Here it is => "I consider it good for me that I suffered affliction, That I may learn Your statutes.". See how that works?
   
   They've taken a lesson straight from the Bible, what they BELIEVE was good for them, to be afflicted, and applied it to all the workers in their employ.
2. So why do SO many poor people INSIST on making the SUPER RICH even RICHER????
3. As usual, those with jealousy and greed in their spiritual core, like the presenter here, have no concept of "wealth." They, like this dupe, value "wealth" on the possession of materials. Why is this stoopid?
   
   It is utterly the objective of those who own America to cause division and chaos withing the rank and file of citizens over possessions, as this jealousy and greed motive divides and weakens all opposition to these elite mobsters in suits. That clears the way to their easily running America any way they choose minus the solidarity of citizens they have divided over a myriad of divisive greed and jealousy issues. Throw in politics and religions for even deeper rifts.
   
   Rather this solution . . .
   
   The Dity, in His Hebrew Scripture, advocates for quietly taking the low road. That way of great wealth based on selflessly caring for those who suffer. This wealth has no boundary, nor is it liable to the corruption and anxiety those who this poor jealous presenter deifies suffer from.
   
   Will the REAL wealthy please stand?
   
   Thank you! Now, the rest of you possession-craving stoopid people, wake up. Pay no heed to this little talking head behind the curtain . . .
4. Americans are so brainwashed, it's unreal. They'll never resist their exploitation, because so many of them are still (willfully) drinking the propaganda that their country is a meritocracy where everyone has equal opportunity; and even many who realize it's unfair and the deck is stacked against them, still think they'll be the ones to defy the odds and get rich - they identify with the powerful, and assume they'll become them one day.
5. Appallingly unreasonable!
6. The more rich you are the easier it is to get even richer...just goes exponentially...hence the chart exponential
7. Many people believe to evenly distribute the wealth in America, by taking the rich's money and giving it to the poorer or less wealthy; however, this is practically stealing. (Let me explain plz before you cut my head off)
   
   Imagine where you have a family of 4 with 5 cars, and there's a family of 5 with 1 car. Shouldn't the government tax your car away and give it to the family of 5 right? Well, what's the difference between a robber who took your car and gave it to the other family?
   
   Well, this is may be good in a sense because the wealthier don't need 5 cars while the family of 5 does so they can have 2 parents going to work right? Well this makes the wealthier family unhappy. This is a small case but there are millions of scenarios like this in the US.
   
   If the government just taxes the rich and gives it to the poor, do you think the poor will spend that money as carefully and as usefully as they can? Or do you think they will spend their money more carefully if they were to work for it?
   The point is that people will most likely spend their money more carefully and usefully when they work for versus them getting it for free without effort.
   
   I don't believe in not helping the poor, but we should give them incentive to work! We need to help them earn money themselves and become more successful; that way, people will become better people! I'm not going to say much more because this reflects onto me as well.
8. Um...yep, seems accurate
9. If u want more wealth in this country get off ur ass and work for it! this video is a joke!!
10. Reagan was bought of by the rich.
11. I think the "what we think the economy is like" is the ideal distribution; the supposedly ideal one gives barely any incentive for anyone to work. The real distribution, however, is fucking insane.
12. Americaa, FUCK YEA!
13. When your gov. fucks with people's food and way of living in other countries , by supporting Dictators and putting corrupted officials as their leaders just to fuck with their population , then at the same times call them "'"3rd world countries'"" !!!
    then thats CARMA 4 U
14. damn, that mean old 1% who has had ancestors dp
    o back breaking work to build a company and has had generations maintain and run it. The thing about capitalism is that it is not about fairness and who works harder gets more, its about who takes the risks and chances to build a company, can either come out on top, or on the bottom.
15. They are estimated to make $30k-75k from this video. I have made none from my videos what so ever. Where is the equality??? They need to share the wealth otherwise they are hypocrites.
16. Why does money matter? Who cares what anybody else actually has? Are YOU happy with your life?
17. Socialism = social peace --> thought distribution like, enough that most people are ok with it.
    Communism = means of production in the hands of the people. - equal distribution
    Socialism =/= Communism
    Typical North American, come back to this century.
18. That 1%=40% of the cash. 80%=7% of the cash. Unbelievable in my opinion, and this was just 2012, it should be much worse in 2017.
19. I'm in the forty percent range
20. I'm in the middle class and though I would love to be financially wealthy. I don't begrudge a rich person for their wealth. Are their some people who don't deserve such good fortune? Yes! The Kardashians come to mind. But wealthy people and corporations are the job creators. We can resent the rich. It's easy enough to always resent someone who has more than you. Many of the poor resent the middle class because the middle class has more than they do. Still America is the one country to be poor in. Many of the below the poverty line population in this country have a TV, cell phone, and even a car. Not all but many. This country has spent Trillions on poverty since the sixties after all. Because I'm not financially wealthy is not some billionaires fault it's my own. But I am wealthy in so many other ways. And I am for the most part content with my life. ✌️