So... no one knows what the hell they are talking about then, eh? OK, the wealth distribution in the US is a MASSIVE problem. Its one of the things that is stalling economic growth. Simply put, trickle down economics does not work. Why? AT a certain point, the wealthy no longer need to buy anything. The wealth stops trickling down then. If they horde the wealth, and don't spend it, then it doesn't do anything. Now, the middle class is shrinking. That is a fact. The American middle class was the single largest purchaser of goods in history. Every time they got a new car, bought their kids a toy, or got that new house, it moved a bit of the economy. Purchasing goods is done by need. The middle class needed more, and as a result, bought more. I love how this conversation was hijacked by those blaming the poor. The problem is that there are too many poor people. Poverty should be a threat, not a way of life. No one wants to live without necessities. No one wants to live on handouts. (when, not if, you call me out on this with a racist statement PSU, I will not respond) Now, you want to fix this? First, get money the hell out of politics. When our leaders are in the pocket of the wealthy, this sort of thing happens. Second, encourage the lawmakers to pass laws that 1) Protect American Jobs and 2) Punish wealth hording. There is no crime in being rich, the crime is in doing nothing with it. Sounds simple. It isn't. So we better get started soon.

Blame the people who sit on welfare for years at a time and mooch off the system. I've seen it first hand too many times. In school, kids on welfare ate free lunches, yet drove better cars than me, had better clothes, and had bigger TV's than me. [quote]How should one help redistribute the wealth better?[/quote] We shouldn't.

Cap CEO pay at a % of lowest base worker pay.

We do NOTHING! The argument of wealth distribution is to take money from the "1%" in the corporate sector and give it to the "0.000000001%" in government. It's ludicrous. You get out what you put in. Flipping hamburgers at McDonald's is not as important as managing a Fortune 500 company. Working 48 hours a week is nothing compared to working 168. People need to get over themselves.

Blame poor people. There's an easy narrative built up already, that we're the makers and the poor are the takers. Poor people have no money to lobby in government or buy network ads or fund thinktank reports - let alone run for office themselves (lol) - so there's no chance of retaliation. They hardly ever have the time, resources, or education to write best-selling books, appear on network TV, or even organize rallies for themselves, so they have no voice at all. The bleeding-heart liberal organizations dedicated to helping them are seen as relics of a bygone era, back when poverty was still a problem in the US (like sexism and racism), so nobody takes them seriously. As a bonus, blaming poor people for any and all problems also makes the rest of us feel better, because we can pretend we hit a triple, rather than know we were born on third base. So wealth inequality? Maybe the nation's poor should stop leeching hard-earned money from the rest of us, into welfare programs that just fund their drug addictions, and go get a real job. It's not my fault I put in the hard work to be where I am today, and that goes double for the richest in the nation, who are the biggest victims of socialist wealth redistribution. As a middle-class American, I never had anyone helping me when I was working my way from the bottom, and I'm the backbone of the US economy. Considering that we live in a nation where social mobility is at its highest point in years, and the same opportunities exist for all, literally the only reason you don't have money is because you don't want to work to get it. Problem solved.

[quote]What is the true wealth inequality, and funnily enough it is quite different than what most people think. So if this is a problem what is the true answer to these problems or issue? How should one help redistribute the wealth better?[/quote]get rid of money and bring forth a resource based economy