masaccio — Studies Confirm Huge Wealth Loss of Middle Class

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Studies Confirm Huge Wealth Loss of Middle Class

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The trend lines are clear. The Oligopoly will get richer. The middle class will disappear in a few years. 

Politicians don’t care. The Republicans are ecstatic: it shows that markets are working and heavily rewarding the most moral and superior among us. The Democrats don’t care. They’re happy to talk about income inequality, but they can’t bring themselves to mention the growing Oligarchy, the vanishing middle class, or the sickening poverty of the bottom 24 million households.