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US income distribution is on the same level as fucking Russia. Bring back the tax brackets from the 1950's and 60's.
It's different people. Those in US still own real things and do something with them to get such incomes.
Those in Russia steal.
In other words, in USA connections are means to help actual power and tools to actual power. In Russia it's the other way around, actual power is all dependent on connections, which ultimately all go to one ruling group.
It's nowhere as bad. But it will get as bad as Russia, of course, if Americans don't learn something.
Hahaha. Just because it's "legal" here doesn't mean it's not stealing. Taking billions in insurance premiums and then spending it to lobby to make it harder and harder to qualify to receive money for a claim is "legal" but so unethical and morally bankrupt that a guy just killed a CEO because of it and the entire country just shrugged and said "Yeah that's about right."
It's legal in Russia too at this point. That's not what I mean. Wealthy people in Russia own nothing really - they are just pockets of Putin. Less wealthy people are just elements of various mechanisms, legal and not, able to steal according to their status. Less wealthy than them - those who do honest business, but pretend the competition is not stifled by various invisible limitations by connections. The lower it gets, the more it is like normal stuff, but one can feel that something is wrong even arriving from Yerevan to Moscow, and Armenia is quite oligarch-owned too.
In Russia there are no CEOs to kill. People in such positions are kinda normal and everyone knows where real power lies, and those holding it can't be so easily caught.
I misunderstood the core of what you were saying. Thank you for explaining it like this.
Dude, you have a self selecting Elite in the US and most other countries. It is the same shit. How many "rags to riches" stories still happen? And these ultimately also involve the right connections at the right time.
Look at the lauded "started in a Garage" tech billionaires.
Bill Gates?
Zuckerberg? Haward student
Bezos? Princeton and then various banks, albeit his family background actually was lower/middle class.
Musk? Fucking apartheid mine owners.
No, I get how it's in the USA. Matches your description. Still radically different from Russia.
Really? It feels worse than Russia.
You haven't been to Russia.
I haven't been to America either