It Is Comforting

to know the top 10 percent of income "earners" (whether or not all of them earned their money is open to question) have increased their share of the wealth to heights not seen since 1928.

The top 10 percent of the population carried away some 48.5 percent of all reported income in the US in 2005—also the highest percentage since 1928, on the eve of the Depression—an increase of 2 percent from 2004, and up from 33 percent of the reported total in the late 1970s.

And you know the very top of that top, the top 1 percent, have the biggest share of all.
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Because Circuit City's poorly-paid salesworkers are not unionized, the company can treat them like shit by paying them even lower wages.