One end of society, known as the 1{781366457d9c05ca9285c5eb3e04ac75968647e24436986cab65f74e6f4b3aad}, has wealth beyond their ability to count, while the other end ranges from struggling to get by, to hunger.
Why is this?
The wealthy believe that it is representative of differing levels of skills and value and that the gap is fair and justified. While unwilling to articulate this, the vast majority of the 1{781366457d9c05ca9285c5eb3e04ac75968647e24436986cab65f74e6f4b3aad} believes it to be true. The poor insist that it is because the wealthy are not taxed enough.
Both are wrong.
The wealth gap is a product of government control of money; not only what constitutes money, but also how much of it is in circulation and, more importantly, interest rates.
A government monopoly of money has existed since the times of Croesus of Lydia and Darius the Persian in the 5th century BC. From then until Nicola Oresme in the 14th century AD an intellectual argument existed that money should return to the people from whom it had been expropriated.
Governments convincingly ended this discussion by the process of severing the heads of the free market minters of Gold and silver coins.
In the 21st century we have forgotten this to the degree that government monopoly of money is assumed; it is no longer up for discussion, even amongst those who claim to support a free market.
Let it be understood clearly that no free market can exist when every transaction is underpinned by monopolised money.
What this monopoly leads to is a situation where politicians and bankers control the economy and then, when the predictable outcome occurs, their cronies are deemed ‘too big to fail’. The unfortunate and unarticulated corollary of this is that the majority are consigned to the category of ‘too small to succeed’, with the wheels greased by the ‘too ignorant to understand how they are being shafted’.
The size of the wealth gap is directly proportional to the amount of control that government exercises over money. Today that control is almost 100{781366457d9c05ca9285c5eb3e04ac75968647e24436986cab65f74e6f4b3aad}.
Violent revolution will be the result if that is not changed.