1. The one that stuck out to me the most was the part where it says the top 400 richest Americans had their wealth grow by almost $700 billion in just 8 years, and that ended up being more money than the bottom 50 percent of the whole country combined that’s like 150 million people. That number is honestly hard to even picture. It’s crazy that a few hundred people can have more wealth than half the entire country put together. That really shows how unequal things actually are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2.When wealth is this unequal, it means most people are working hard just to get by, while a small group at the top keeps growing richer without doing the actual labor. It makes basic things like healthcare, housing, and food harder to afford, even though the country clearly has enough money overall. I see this in my own job. I’m a PCT in a care facility, and the people doing the hands-on work, the ones actually keeping patients safe get paid way less than people higher up who don’t do that daily labor. It’s the same pattern the reading talks about the people doing the real work aren’t the ones benefiting the most from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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