This cartoon from The Seattle Times illustrates how America’s economic pizza is actually sliced per capita, highlighting the massive disparity between the Top 1%, the merely wealthy, the upper middle class, and the lower 50%.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    It’s exponential by design. It doesn’t have to be, but slowly the rich have made it this way as they tried to gain more and more, and lobby for more and more.