Americans, the eternal optimists... We all want equal distribution of wealth but we're scared away by fearmongers and wingnuts who rail against socialism.
It's funny and sad that we don't really know how to get what We the People know what we want but don't want to go get it. Just go try and "spread the wealth around" and see how far you get...
We know now how tightly controlled we are by the robber barons and the corporate elite. They've got it, we want it, don't want it, want it, don't want it, repeat......
Americans Vastly Underestimate Wealth Inequality, Support 'More Equal Distribution Of Wealth': Study
Americans vastly underestimate the degree of wealth inequality in America, and we believe that the distribution should be far more equitable than it actually is, according to a new study.
Or, as the study's authors put it: "All demographic groups -- even those not usually associated with wealth redistribution such as Republicans and the wealthy -- desired a more equal distribution of wealth than the status quo."
The respondents were presented with unlabeled pie charts representing the wealth distributions of the U.S., where the richest 20 percent controlled about 84 percent of wealth, and Sweden, where the top 20 percent only controlled 36 percent of wealth. Without knowing which country they were picking, 92 percent of respondents said they'd rather live in a country with Sweden's wealth distribution.
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