Thursday, February 24, 2011

Visualizing the wealth of America's super-rich ruling class



A series of 11 infographics from Mother Jones vividly illustrate the widening gap between America's rich and poor, and how skewed Americans' views of this inequality are. The myth of the American dream has led plenty of ordinary Americans to believe that they are rich-people-in-waiting, leading them to support policies that benefit the rich at their expense (see the chart after the jump for more).

It's the Inequality, Stupid (Thanks, Mmechanic, via Submitterator!)


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