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Travis's avatar

Economic inequality mostly exists across educational lines nowadays in a society where the educated are increasingly self-segregating in both marriage and neighborhood. They're concentrating wealth and education across the post-college class and leaving a lot of folks behind economically just as a matter of where they cluster together in communities. Those communities have higher property taxes that fund better school districts and are dense with well-off parents whose children form social capital networks with other kids who will also go on to become more successful than average. That's the rigged system. The people who already have it good increasingly flocking together and then pulling up the economic ladder from underneath them. The top 9.9% of earners in this country own more collective wealth than both the 0.1% *and* the bottom 90%. There's your decadent scribe class concentrating wealth and education so they can live their best lives at the expense of everyone else getting crowded out. Why do you think we're living through a mass-migration of coastal city-dwellers into younger sun belt cities? It's because liberal mayors let the rich in their cities price out about half of the middle class. People can't afford to live there anymore. That's liberal mayors refusing to tax the donor class while chanting progressive slogans about the "99%" lol. The liberals are the ones creating wealth inequality now while shouting about taxing the rich and then never doing it. And then they wonder how we got a country full of anti-"managerial elite" Trumpers lol.

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Terry Hilldale's avatar

Links would be great. I don't mean links for the readily available statistics. I mean links for all those inferences.

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