Who rules America's wealth? Does the wealth need to be distributed differently?

Question

I just found the website listed below. It is really suprising to me the facts that I have learned. Can I get your first impressions on the facts and numbers below.

In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in a relatively few hands. As of 2001, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 33.4% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 51%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 84%, leaving only 16% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). Basically the rich are getting richer. My question is...

(Facts from http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html)

1) Do you feel that this is just the American way or does the bottom 80% need to rise up and take back a portion of the wealth.
2) Who's fault is it?
3) If we did rise up...what do we need to do? Demand higher pay? Demand better benefits?

Answer 1

1. It is America's way and has always been America's way. This is the nature of a capitalistic society.
2. It is no one's "fault." Again, this is a "trickle down" society. The haves are not going to go out of their way for the have nots. But, a unique quality of this country is...
3. Each individual in America has access to education, information, and freedom to obtain wealth and to become a power broker. If "we" put ourselves in a position of "rising up", "demanding higher pay" -- that is still a position of weakness, where we would depend on the benevolence of others to provide our needs. However, if "we" find the means to provide for ourselves -- that is is the only way to achieve true wealth.

Answer 2

Redistributing wealth in any way is the government.telling people what quantity of their money they'd shop and what quantity they'd't. Normalizing the wealth? it extremely is an outstanding one. in line with threat Obama can use it while redistribution gets too old. Kinda like while international warming did not artwork so now they use climate exchange. the wealthy does not be a penny poorer on what planet? I oppose it. You asked in case you have been a instructor and ninety 8% of your pupils failed you're a foul instructor. to curl the examination would dumb down the entire classification. i'm not for the dumbing down of usa Nor am I for "leveling the enjoying field"

Answer 3

1.) American way.
2.) The 80%. That area of people needs to figure out how to make more money by earning more high paying jobs, ppl need to understand that salary and wage workers don't make any money.
3.) Rising up to distribute evenly among people is basically communism.

Answer 4

Yes Comrade, wwe will overcome the Capitalists who oppress us as our brothers in Russia did in 1918. Let us mark the 90th aniversary of that glorious day next Oct. before those evil people can stage another free election. Let us take our guns and kill the wealthy oppressors. Then WE can take away YOUR guns, because yo will no longer need them. Because you will have been liberated. You will no longer need to work hard to get what you want because you can't have what you want anyway.

Answer 5

just look at the back of yu 1 dollar bill, there's a pyramid, just like the egyptians we too have a mass slave worker society.

Answer 6

YOYO, point of fact, the Egyptians did not use slaves.