A Nation Run Not By Shopkeepers, But By Con Men, Protection Rackets, and Swindlers

"And remember, where you have the concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."

Lord Acton
Income inequality such that it suppresses the middle class is a practical policy problem for what I hope are obvious reasons of inadequate demand and economic stagnation.  As the US currently has one of the most extreme