Propaganda and inequality is increasing, You only need to look around, You can tell how well or badly a county is doing by walking down the high street and count the number of closed shops

Do you mean Hear, Hear?

the reason that income in equality is not increasing is simple the government want us all to be equal so they are making it possible.

Here, Here!

the media are making a lot of the inequality of wealth,
not opportunity. . if we focused on increasing opportunity
for those who are trapped socially, trapped by drugs,
trapped by fears and schisms and true oppression,
then we'd have something. . but capitalism would
take care of that, if we tried it. . we sneaked up on
capitalism with the initiation of the u.s. ... let's try it
better, next time, folks! -- j
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Your welcome...a different take on things always wakes up the ole noggin.

Interesting article, thanks for posting it.

You may have something there...the whole system was disrupted.

I wonder if the post- WWII period was a deviation from this historical norm that roughly follows the Pareto principle. If so the reversion to the norm period feels unusual, and we ask "what is causing it?" Maybe it's just reversion to the historical norm after an anomaly.