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Today I learned that the top 10% of earners in the US account for almost 50% of consumption
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This has been the norm throughout most of history.
The last few years maybe, at least since agriculture enabled standing armies, but not for most of human history, which has frequently been egalitarian and communal
True but it is new to the American experience since World War 2.
The US has always been built to satisfy the top.
A Brief History of Income Inequality in the US
For further reading I'd highly recommend the book A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.