Global Wealth Pyramid. The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What Motivates the Occupy Movement | Occupy Wall Street. October 23, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. What are the Occupy Wall Street protesters angry about? The same things we’re all angry about. Now is not the time for wonky policy solutions, as the media meatheads are calling for. 1.
(click for larger version) The productivity/wage chart says it all. 2. (click for larger version) Actually the top tenth of one percent. 3. (click for larger version) As women entered the workforce, family income made up for some of the wage stagnation. 4. (click for larger version) To add financial insult to injury, the richest of the rich pay less and less each year as a percentage of their monstrous incomes. 5. (click for larger version) When the rich become astronomically rich, they gamble with their excess money. 6. (click for larger version) We bailed out the big Wall Street banks and protected the billionaires from ruin.
Facts In the Form of Visuals: Income Inequality. 15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth And Inequality In America. 30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012. 30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012 Courtesy of Michael Snyder of Economic Collapse Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, that is rapidly changing. The statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a doubt that the U.S. middle class is dying right in front of our eyes as we enter 2012. The decline of the middle class is not something that has happened all of a sudden. As I have written about previously, America as a whole is getting poorer as a nation, and as this happens wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated at the very top of the income scale. Today I went over to Safeway and I was absolutely appalled at the prices.
When the cost of the basic things that we need - housing, food, gas, electricity - go up faster than our incomes do, that means that we are getting poorer. -The number of good jobs continues to decrease.