Video Showing the Huge Gap Between Super Rich and Everyone Else Goes Viral

[jadehunter]

For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world. Citing a myriad of causes -- from cheap credit to exploitative bank practices -- they've noted that the average family puts away less than 4 percent of its

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[clevermanka]

This is so depressing. Well presented, but depressing. Ugh.

[strandedinaber]

JFC. This is beyond ridiculous.

[mollywobbles867]

So depressing seeing it laid out like that. Definitely going to share this all over the place.

[kittenmommy]

I wish I could believe that that would do some good.

[anjak_j]

I always known the distribution of wealth in the US - and most of the rest of the western world for that matter - is weighted heavily in favour of the rich but... I... *stunned*

[alexvdl]

Excellent. Something to strive for in life.

[happythree]

The bigger the struggle, the bigger the prize, amiright?

[liliaeth]

except for the part where the chance of you ever getting in the 1% is way below 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001%

[alexvdl]

Good point. I should probably just give up on my goals and just rail impotently against it.