rich poor gap
i bitch and moan about the rich poor gap here in the united states. but in all honesty, it ain't so bad. 10% of people own 90% of the world. most of the world lives in poverty. 20% of americans own 87% of the united states. that's significantly better. we are a rich country. that's what's called a correlation. is there causation here? i'd like to think so. i'd like to think that we're rich as a nation because the american system is good at enabling upward mobility. ie it's good at moving wealth from the rich to the non-rich. if that's true then we should be able to increase the nation's wealth even further by tweaking the system to be even more efficient at creating opportunity for a kid born have-not to raise kids have.