Thursday, February 24, 2011

Chart of the Day: Wealth Distribution


This chart, and ten more over on MoJo, tell a sad story about America.

Especially since, oh, just about the time St. Ronald of Reagan took office -- see the chart titled "Winner Take All" when you get over there.

(h/t: msmarjoribanks)

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[Added] The source for the above chart is a paper "[f]orthcoming in Perspectives on Psychological Science" by Michael I. Norton (Harvard) and Dan Ariely (Duke), titled "Building a Better America – One Wealth Quintile at a Time." (PDF)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Horrifying .

Something I do not want.

A country one can't live in .

bjkeefe said...

Indeed. We gotta make it better.

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