This article talks about how most people don't no how bad income inequality is in America, and they asked 5,000 Americans to guess the percentage of wealth owned by each fifth of the population. they found that the average American thinks that the richest fifth own 59% of the wealth and that the bottom 40% own 9%. The truth is that there is a much larger gap, where the top 20% have more than 84% of the wealth and the bottom 40% combine for a paltry 0.3%. I actually didn't know it was that bad i knew it was bad but not that bad.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/economic-inequality-it-s-far-worse-than-you-think/
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