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Supertopics:
The Claim that Rich People Deserve to Be Rich
Most Wealth Goes to the Top
Plutocracy
The Rich Tend to Get Richer

The Rules Are Rigged (to shift wealth to the rich)

Subtopics:
Finance as a Money-Skimming Scheme
Stock Market Money-Skimming
Excessive Bank Fees
Needless Middlemen Skimming Profits
gouging people who don't have bank accounts
webCandice ChoiAssociated Press2010-10-04
Much Wealth is Inherited
Thomas Piketty's Book 'Capital in the 21st Century'
upper-class people credit their inherent superiority
webMatthew HutsonSlate2014-01-03
Dean Baker's 'The Conservative Nanny State'
webDean Baker2006-05-01
class mobility in the USA has decreased
webPaul KrugmanThe Nation2004-01-05
the super rich are excluded from statistics
webMichael Parenti2000-01-01
Corporations Avoid Paying Costs (Externalization)
Government Subsidies to Corporations
Corporation Ecology Problems
Exporting US Coal to Externalize Its Pollution Costs
Corporate Cost Externalization Miscellany
Taxpayers Are Forced to Prop Up the Stock Market
Government Bailouts Pump Up the Stock Market
The Fed's Low Interest Rates to Prop Up the Stock Market
carmaker bailout collapses over union wages
webJulie Hirschfeld Davis and Ken...Associated Press2008-12-11
The Occupy Movement (We Are the 99%)
Occupy Movement Articles By Date
The Occupy Movement By Location
Strategy for the Occupy Movement
My Occupy Movement Stuff
Tea Partiers Versus Occupiers
The Danger of Co-Optation of the Occupy Movement
The Rules Are Rigged Miscellany
some rich kids get into top universities through bribery
webJacob ShamsianInsider2019-03-13
a game where some begin with a huge advantage
webJen Sorensen2018-01-02
a motivation for accelerating global warming
webStephan Pastis2017-11-02
Dean Baker's book 'Rigged'
webDean Baker2016-01-01
democracies most efficiently shift wealth to the elites
webWalden BelloForeign Policy in Focus2014-12-05
the 85 richest have as much as the 3.5 billion poorest
webOxfam2014-01-20
Hightower on how the rules are rigged
webJim Hightower2012-01-02
the plutocrats will string us along forever
webPhil RockstrohNation of Change2011-12-10
the view that inequality is legitimate is waning
webGlenn GreenwaldTomDispatch2011-10-25
Occupy must avoid co-optation & rewrite the rules
webJeff Reifman and Thomas LinzeyYes! Magazine2011-10-15
Dean Baker's 'The End of Loser Liberalism'
webDean Baker2011-01-01
Dean Baker's 'The Conservative Nanny State'
webDean Baker2006-05-01