The Left, as is usual, smells opportunity in statistics that they can use to win votes and attack the other side. Yahoo chimed in today: “THE ISSUE: The rich keep getting richer while more Americans are getting left behind financially. The average income for the top 1 percent of households climbed 7.7 percent last year to $1.36 million, according to tax data tracked by Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at the university of California, Berkeley. That privileged sliver of the population saw pay climb at almost twice the rate of income growth for the other 99 percent, whose pay averaged a humble $48,768.
“The” Income Inequality” critic’s faculty salary puts him in the top 1%. Decrying the iniquities of the American capitalist system pays off. Emmanuel Saez’ total wages in 2014, came to $549,350,” in case you were wondering why tuition at major universities is so high.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Aug 30, 2016 @ 12:10:02
I do not see income inequality as an issue the left is only concernedwith. mainstream economists are now concerned with this issue. We see the IMF and the OECD having papers written on this topic and this issue is frequently seen as a major issue why Brexir occurred and why parties of the extreme right and left are gaining in support in Europe and of course we have Trump and Sanders in the USA.
If you ignore income equality then it seems to me capitalism does not work well at all.
Perhaps Marx had something after all!
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