huge income variance in US causes problems

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/opinion/kristof-a-failed-experiment.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1353679201-umNpP/bDgn/Z+AIybjMkTA

"the top 1 percent of Americans now have greater collective net worth than the entire bottom 90 percent."

This is going back to the middle ages when there was just serfs and lords.  Is that what we want?  

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