Inequality

Wrote this on Facebook:

This is somewhat a bad trend, with us stratifying our economic classes in the country. Across a hundred years or so, this leads to revolution. We don't need things equal, but we do want to make sure you have fair opportunities for people to move around and wealth to spread through hard work. I'm not sure our systems encourage this. Instead, it looks more like our laws are geared to help those that have more (really the 80-99%) and limit the abilities of people below that to move up (in general). Individuals will always find ways to succeed, I'm talking more as an overall view of large numbers of people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/22/good-news-for-people-who-like-bad-news-about-inequality/