This is not rich versus poor but literally 19 households versus rest including other wealthy people. Years of policy let asset bubbles reward only owners while regular folks deal with fallout. Wealth versus income comparison hides how gains come from passive holding not new work. Governments keep markets inflating for few while structural split leaves most stuck.
The richest Americans have never controlled this much wealth:
The wealth of the top 0.00001% of Americans is up to a record ~12% of US national income.
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