That is an incomprehensible increase. Going from, say, $30 billion to $300 billion is not the same as going from $30 to $300, or from $30,000 to $300,000. Yes, all are increases by a factor of 10. But having $300 means you can treat yourself and a guest to a good meal. Having $300,000 means you can buy a nice boat. Having $300 billion means you could buy several small countries.
In this special issue, we examine how this happened, what Americans think of it, and how it can possibly be undone. Staff writer Timothy Noah delivers the grim and epic narrative of how we got here. Filmmaker and writer Abigail Disney (granddaughter of Roy, Walt’s brother) makes a stirring plea for raising taxes on her and her ilk. Veteran journalist Joe Conason examines Trump’s corruption, arguing that such self-dealing is endemic to authoritarian regimes. And finally, we commissioned an exclusive poll, analyzed by executive editor Ryan Kearney, on how aware Americans are of our wealth gap (very) and how much they’d like to see it change (a lot).
Louis Brandeis’s words remain true: “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” In ways Brandeis could never have imagined, we may be about to find out.
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