<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">Holy shit! I said the wealth gap was huge and I said it was accelerating, but my posts vastly underestimated it. Take a look at today's New York Times:</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;display:inline"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/eight-richest-wealth-oxfam.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/16/world/eight-richest-wealth-oxfam.html?_r=0</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">In the carefree innocent days of last week I said <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​that ​</div>in 4 or 5 years the number of people that would equal the wealth of the poorest half of the human race, 3.6 Billion people<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​could​</div> be in the teens, but as of today that number is <b>8</b>! And I don't mean 8 factorial I mean <b>8</b>. </font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">In 2010 it took 388 people to equal 3.6 billion<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ people​</div>, in 2014 it was 85, last year it <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​was​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div> 62, <b>AND NOW IT IS 8</b>. I suppose nobody should have been surprised that people are getting so angry they do irrational things, like voting for Donald Trump, even though Trump's policies, to the extent that he has policies, will only accelerate the acceleration of the acceleration of the gap. Anybody who is not terrified by this doesn't understand the situation.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></font><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark​</div></font><div><font size="4"><br></font></div></div></div></div>