[ExI] Acceleration of the wealth gap

Darin Sunley dsunley at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 15:19:14 UTC 2020


I guarantee that that's part of the dynamic driving the riots and looting,
though you can always count on the MSM to fail to mention anything that
might imply inform a narrative of economic-based class warfare [as opposed
to race warefare, which they are all about].

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 5:53 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Forty million Americans have filed for unemployment during the economic
> lockdown and 113,106 have died from COVID-19, but between mid March and mid
> May the net worth of American billionaires increased by $434 billion. I
> find it amazing that so many people think this acceleration of the wealth
> gap can continue indefinitely without blood flowing in the streets.
>
> American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic
> <https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/american-billionaires-got-434-billion-richer-during-the-pandemic.html>
>
> John K Clark
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