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Re:After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall by mhb on Friday August 21, 2009 @08:39AM (#777400)
How does this even begin to make sense:

Among them is whether harder times for the rich will ultimately benefit the middle class and the poor, given that the huge recent increase in top incomes coincided with slow income growth for almost every other group

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Re:After a 30-Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Wall by nazgulnarsil on Friday August 21, 2009 @09:19AM (#777462)
because everyone in the fucking world still believes in zero-sum mercantilism. people are only a couple hundred years behind. maybe in another 50 years the marginal revolution will finally seep into the public conscious.

the concept of everyone getting richer or everyone getting poorer is completely alien to most people.

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