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America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90%

Like many of the virus’s hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions. A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health insurance system perversely unsuited to the moment—these and other afflictions are surely contributing to the death toll. But in addressing the causes and consequences of this pandemic—and its cruelly uneven impact—the elephant in the room is extreme income inequality.

How big is this elephant? A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades…

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AstonJ

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Since a few of us are focused on ethics in tech, I wonder if we should create a portal for ethics related topics too :nerd_face: (a bit like our Diversity Community Portal | Devtalk).

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