Income and wealth inequality are rising sharply, and capital is pulling far ahead of labor, which is creating a vast and quickly-widening divide between the social classes.
Specifically, the shrinking resource pie—of cheap energy, of cheap debt, of labors’ share of the economy, of the low-hanging fruit of globalization—is all but ensuring the future will be defined by escalating and fractious rancor among the rich, working class and poor.
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