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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[wrestlingdog]

Rachel Maddow did a story last night that presented the exact same info but in a different chart.

It's absolutely mindblowing.

[georgie_georgie]

wow, this was so fascinating.

[foureyedgirl]

Fuck capitalism, tbh.

[cghardy]

Not surprised. At all.

[blackjedii]

Already knew about it.

When are people actually going to do something about it?

[kittenmommy]

What do you think we should or even could do?

[blackjedii]

Get better Congresspeople, for one.

But more to the point, I don't expect this to go away. Especially not when there is little to no incentive whatsoever for any corporation to stay in the US or use those lovely offshore accounts to protect their CEOs.

But I do think we can fix the tax code and close those loopholes. Why on earth are we giving oil companies money when they're making record profits? Why on earth are Congressional people able to vote on raises when their districts are hurting?

It's just impossible to put pressure on our government when we ourselves are broke. :/

[kittenmommy]

Get better Congresspeople, for one.

Well, I vote. There's not much else I can do!

It's just impossible to put pressure on our government when we ourselves are broke. :/

Don't think they don't know that!