The rich get the assets…

The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house. The rich use that money to buy the rest of the assets from the middle class and then the problem gets worse every year. The middle class disappears, spending power disappears permanently from the economy, the rich becoming much fucking richer and the poor, well, I guess they just die?’

Just finished reading The Trading Game and the above line stood out for me. It is a very good book, once you get past the fairly slow start, and Gary highlights something that could affect the world much more than we have considered to date.



Categories: Books, Politics, Thoughts

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  1. It’s true. We used to think that income inequality was bad.

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