US Income Inequality Higher Than Ancient Rome

[Hasbinbad]

"Over the last 30 years, wealth in the United States has been steadily concentrating in the upper economic echelons. Whereas the top 1 percent used to control a little over 30 percent of the wealth, they now control 40 percent."
"In total, Schiedel and Friesen figure the elite orders and other wealthy made up about 1.5 percent of the 70 million inhabitants the empire claimed at its peak. Together, they controlled around 20 percent of the wealth."
http://persquaremile.com/2011/12/16/...-roman-empire/

Source Story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1158926.html

[runlvlzero]

4 real.

[runlvlzero]

Also, I almost forgot. Post your creepy pictures of Vatican residents.

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[r00t]

There's this concept called capitalism that works on an evolutionary model. If the guys at the top got brains to concentrate the wealth, good one them. Philanthropy is a wonderful thing, go get yourself one of Bill Gates sterilization-- err malaria shots

[r00t]

also lol when 1% controls 40% & ppl call me tinfoil for saying bilderberg picks the president and assassinated jfk

[Daldolma]

good reason to be top 1%

[Ahldagor]

and posting this in an elf sim forum changes things how?

[runlvlzero]

Get a machete and live off crabs and coconuts. EZ.

Or learn Russian, Mandarin, Latin, Scandinavian, and become an expatriate with your veterans/social security/welfare/retirement funds.

[runlvlzero]

Disability might work to. Not sure how all that will pan out in the long run for an expatriate. You just need to show an income in the range of 900$ a month to emigrate most places.

[runlvlzero]

OH SHIT IT WAS A GODAMN TRAP. This is not r00ts thread. =/

I suck at life.