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Old 04-23-14, 06:53 AM   #9
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His point around the late 20th century redistribution of wealth is looking like an aberration rather than an ongoing trend is probably right. Though future history may prove him wrong.

I think that the only "new" thing in terms of wealth and income is the ability of an employee (read senior executives), to rise into the top 1%.

Previous eras only company owners tended to hold those roles so even there I don't think much has changed.
The only changes I see are cost of inflation and taxes. Services we pay for today that was not paid for 20 years ago. Phone was a minimal $9.00. TV was free. Internet did not exist. We wrote letters and paid .03 cent to mail it.
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