SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Income inequality in America has been growing rapidly, and is expected to increase [PDF]. While the widening wealth gap is a hot topic in the media and on the campaign trail, there's quite a disconnect between the perceptions of economists and those of the general public.
For instance, surveys show people tend to underestimate the income disparity between the top and bottom 20% of Americans, and overestimate the opportunity for poor individuals to climb the social ladder. Additionally, a majority of adults believe that corporations conduct business fairly despite evidence to the contrary and that the government should not act to reduce income inequality.
Even though inequality is increasing, Americans seem to believe that our social and economic systems work exactly as they should. This perspective has intrigued social scientists for decades. My colleague Andrei Cimpian and I have demonstrated in our recent research that these beliefs that our society is fair and just may take root in the first years of life, stemming from our fundamental desire to explain the world around us.
http://theconversation.com/lifes-not-fair-so-why-do-we-assume-it-is-45981
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 10 2015, @10:11PM
You don't get to shit on the rich for being born rich, that's blind luck and thus fair.
Mighty Buzzard, once again your lack of education, and American antagonism to all things leftish, have betrayed you! It is not "shit on the rich", it is "shit the rich", because it will finally come to the point where the poor have nothing to eat but the rich. The Slogan is "Eat the Rich!" I guess you could add, "Don't hate us because we are delicious." Oh, and Soylent Green is people, delicious juicy fat rich people.