Dickens' London brought to life
The super-rich are often people who grab control of national resources, use high levels of government influence, pay extremely low wages, and squash competition.
The USA's wealth increased from $47 trillion, in 2008, to $72 trillion, in mid-2013.
This is according to the 2013 Global Wealth Databook.
Between 2008 and 2013, the top 5 percent of Americans have each gained, on average, nearly a million dollars.
But according to U.S. Government Revenue figures, federal income taxes have gone DOWN from 2008 to 2012.
Corporations have seen their tax rate cut by half.
In America, the super rich don't necessarily need ordinary American workers.
The factories of the super rich can be moved to Asia; or they can use robots.
The products of these factories can be sold in Asia.
The super rich don't need ordinary schools, hospitals, buses, pensions or policemen.
The super rich go private.
They use private schools, hospitals, helicopters, pensions and security.
The super-rich are not necessarily particularly well-educated or hardworking.
They make use of the research done by American universities.
They make use of the research done by American universities.
Google's business "started as ARPANET, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency computer network from the 1960s.
"The National Science Foundation funded the Digital Library Initiative research at Stanford University
that was adopted as the Google model."
that was adopted as the Google model.""Companies like Pfizer and Merck have relied on basic research performed at the National Institute of Health."
Much more here: How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America
Much more here: How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America
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These Robber Barons included people such as Andrew Carnegie, Edward Harriman, James Hill and Henry Plant.
What we are talking about is the Feudal System, whereby a rich elite, belonging to more than one religious group, exploits the ordinary citizen.
The Feudal system is not something new.
The bankers are not particularly clever, except when it comes to manipulating markets.
One of the USA's major industries is the trade in illegal drugs.
One of the USA's major industries is the trade in illegal drugs.
The USA also makes money from human trafficking and from the arms trade.
America is run by the Robber Barons.
The term Robber Barons appeared in the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly[1] magazine.
The Robber Barons were "businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2]
"These practices included exerting control over national resources, accruing high levels of government influence, paying extremely low wages, squashing competition..."
The term Robber Barons appeared in the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly[1] magazine.
The Robber Barons were "businessmen who used exploitative practices to amass their wealth.[2]
"These practices included exerting control over national resources, accruing high levels of government influence, paying extremely low wages, squashing competition..."
What we are talking about is the Feudal System, whereby a rich elite, belonging to more than one religious group, exploits the ordinary citizen.
The Feudal system is not something new.
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