Thursday, November 18, 2010

Sam Calvin Fascinating chart- the top bar is the actual wealth distribution by quintile (the wealthiest 20% hold more than 80% of the wealth while the bottom 40% hold nothing), the middle bar is what people estimate the distribution is, and the bottom is what people believe a just society would look like (the wealthiest hold just over 30%). Even those IN THE TOP income groups think society's wealth is far more equally distributed than it actually is, and believe that society should RIGHTLY be even fairer than that!

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I've been meaning to get to this chart for some time, so I am glad Good reminded me to: The actual United States wealth distribution plotted against the

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