Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Justice is fairness

Remember what we were talking about last class?  As of 2007, in the USA, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%, leaving only 15% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). Is that fair?