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Video Showing the Huge Gap Between Super Rich and Everyone Else Goes Viral. For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.

Video Showing the Huge Gap Between Super Rich and Everyone Else Goes Viral

Citing a myriad of causes -- from cheap credit to exploitative bank practices -- they've noted that the average family puts away less than 4 percent of its income. "Wealth Inequality in America," a six-minute video produced by a YouTube user named "Politizane," casts an interesting angle on the plummeting savings rate. Set to depressing piano music and packed with crystal-clear animations, it gives a powerful snapshot of the American economic landscape. Noting that "The top 1 percent own nearly half the country's stocks, bonds, and mutual funds," the video goes on to contrast those impressive holdings with the rest of the country.

By comparison, it points out, the bottom 50 percent of earners own only 0.5 percent of those investments. 4chan.png (PNG Image, 1094 × 279 pixels)