Pitanje je govorimo li i poredimo li ovde pojedinacne sudbine (nasa licna iskustva i polozaj u nekom drustvu), teoretske postavke (sloboda trzista vs drzavna regulativa) ... ili statisticke podatke o kvalitetu zivljenja vecine ljudi u nekoj drzavi.
~ 1 milion zatvorenika u US moze jos uvek da sanja americki san, pitanje je kakva im je java
Isto vazi za stotine hiljada beskucnika, umrilih od droge i njihovih familija, ubijenih i ranjenih u masovnim pucnjavama i njihovih familijama, bankrotiranih usled visokih zdravstvenih racuna, ekstremno predebelih (ne samo individualno krivih jer - nigde ne mozes bez auta + puno lose hrane), hronicno bolesnih usled toksicne okoline, mentalno bolesnih usled prevelikog radnog/socijalnog stresa ...
Govorimo li ovde o 10% ovih koji imaju 2/3 bogatstva, ili o onih 80% koji imaju 11% bogatstva ?
In the first quarter of 2024, almost two-thirds percent of the total wealth in the United States was owned by the top 10 percent of earners. In comparison, the lowest 50 percent of earners only owned 2.5 percent of the total wealth.
Income inequality in the U.S.
Despite the idea that the United States is a country where hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps will inevitably lead to success, this is often not the case. In 2023, 7.4 percent of U.S. households had an annual income under 15,000 U.S. dollars. With such a small percentage of people in the United States owning such a vast majority of the country’s wealth, the gap between the rich and poor in America remains stark.
The top one percent
The United States follows closely behind China as the country with the most billionaires in the world. Elon Musk alone held around 219 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Over the past 50 years, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio has exploded, causing the gap between rich and poor to grow, with some economists theorizing that this gap is the largest it has been since right before the Great Depression.
Wealth distribution in the United States in the second quarter of 2024
Wealth inequality in the United States
The inequality of wealth (i.e., inequality in the distribution of assets) has substantially increased in the United States since the late 1980s.
Wealth, Income, and Power
In the United States, wealth is highly concentrated in relatively few hands. As of 2013, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 36.7% of all privately held wealth, and the next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 52.2%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 89%, leaving only 11% of the wealth for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers).
In terms of financial wealth (total net worth minus the value of one's home), the top 1% of households had an even greater share: 42.8%.