Wealth Inequality in America

"the rich get richer and the poor get poorer"

Unfortunately, we never woke up, and we never will

Trillionaire 😊

The only Equality we are entitled to is Equal Protection Before The Law.
All the rest is to be dealt with through entirely voluntary means.

Top 1% is the proof capitalism doesn't work either, moreover so in a world where money = political power. That's why epstein files will never be released and the top 1% will keep screw everyone... unless we change something!

Need an update to this video lmao

This is unbelievably scary to watch 13 years later

They killed off unions and this is results of it

$75 billion was the richest man in 2016...1 trillion in 2026...insane jump.

And then, there are people who would want you to think that the buttom 2% is actually making your life worse with their petty crimes. They stole your bicyle, they damage your car, they shoplift so much so now you have to deal with safety locked cheese.
Maybe there is a reason for that. Maybe the culture would not have stooped so low if 20% of them would not be below the powerty line while the top1% controls 40% of total wealth.
Its 2026, its probably around 60-65% now.
And they still want to sell us the "you should have choosen a better paying job" bullshit.

Jsut imagining whats the status today?

The problem with this video is how the information is approached. When you say middle class is "worse off" than upper middle, compared to top 20%, you're assuming middle class isnt making enough... you're essentially operating under a premise you already said was a bad idea-- that the distribution should be treated as equal. There's no reference line for the poverty line, or for what would be considered comfortable,l. Additionally, there's no consideration for what is done with the assets. The reality is that middle class makes enough to live comfortably affording housing, food, healthcare, responsible savings, and unessential quality of life purchases. Lower middle class does all that while scraping by, and upper middle makes enough to not worry about making ends meet, so long as they aren't irresponsible and spend like they earn outside of their bracket... but most of the capital there, and below is earned income. The capital for the top 20%, as stated stems from bonds and stocks. This is capital made from investments and wealth accrued by ownership, and aren't used as currency except in the context of trading/growing/creating businesses. The question becomes, then, what do they do with this excess wealth? Well, they do the same thing the upper middle class does, but they also provide job opportunities for everyone else. To hold them to the same standard as the middle class is not obly stupid, its unfair... its like buying a cup from your neighbor's lemonade stand, then complaining that he's able to afford 3000 glasses to sell to others.

There are different pies in our economy. If you cut them all with the same knife, you not only ruin the pie, but it becomes impossible to tell wtf youre eating.

We need an update on this in 2026.😢

2026 fuck

dude holy shit

hey reagan im still waiting for it to trickle down

Watching this in 2026 😭

Bro just dropped one important video and vanished

Did he asked them of their interpretation of wealth instead of assuming and making an ass out of himself? Is owning an abundance of materials the only consideration of wealth which is something you cannot take with you when they put you into the ground or burn your ass. How much wealth did the Palestinian's have? Are their lives more valuable then the destruction of all their properties by the Jews. It appears that sustaining life is more important then how much material things one owns. Food or Genocide? Gaza or Manhattan? Hmmm. It appears we all have our own values in life. I suppose when society dictates to you what something is then it is the standard. Hmmm. So how do you define being totally free, Since no one on this planet is free? What value or wealth would you put on Freedom.?

Humans suck. They'll never be solved.

Y'all plebians are jealous as fuck. You called the middle class poor, when I'm only upper middle class right now and I can easily afford some nice luxuries

The American Dream is a lie, so your argument against "dreaded socialism" is bullshit.

Is this person related to gotye? Drop a banger and dissapear

1922 the top 1% held 36% of the wealth: 2013 - SAME EXCEPT that 1% is 2 million more people.

Welcome to the Amreican Dream right? Shits only going to get worse in the next 5-10 years.

Fuck

2026 now and things have gone bad to worse for USA. Thank you Donald Trump and Republicans...
sarcasm

I really want to see an updated version of this video displaying the same vision. I could easily see it 100x-500x higher than this video showed 13 years ago

good to see how much better off people were 13 years ago

The leaders have known this since 100 years ago as they changed the banking system. Your $10,000 used to buy over 450 1oz gold coins. Now you $10,000 buys 2.5 gold coins. Also, the morgtage. Home built and financed in 1965, refinance in 1998, still paying on in in 2026. So the banks just have to type that into your account. That's it. Your family has had its wealth siphoned by the banks this whole time. Sanctioned and legalized and normalized by the federal government cause PROFIT. The system doesn't care about you you are its pawns. Very sad STATE OF THE UNION.

And it is most certainly much worse now in 2026

We are Slaves

Early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy then wicked
with too much luggage

Luxembourg

tldr this guy is stupid and needs a kindergarten explanation, muh hard to wrap my head around

What's even more amazing is there's 29.8k subscribers who have been waiting years for another video 😂

You know what, now 30 Elon Musk ~ US total gdp

What defines the middle class category here.

Satoshi?

How are people this absolutely dillusional about wealth distribution? We KNOW this right. For over decades this information has been available.

As a european it is mindblowing that this information has been available for over 10 years and you haven't done anything about it.

Oh and people in that 1% hardly work at all. Most role into it bt generational wealth etc. Etc.

And as a PSA: eat the rich, burn the system.

Anyone born in this country won the lotto

Guaranteed anger watching this video

Remember guys this was before covid when everyone in the nation lost money except the top 1% who made more

dude made this video 14 years ago. things have gotten so much worse since then. we are on the verge of class warfare. it is 1780s france up in here!

20-30 years? yep, from 2012 that was right around reagan. the man who massacred the middle class.

Is bro alive or