wealth distribution

Listening to an NPR segment yesterday on growing income dispartiy in the US, they pointed out that in terms adjusted for inflation, most low-to-middle income wages have not risen since 1969. In fact, workers now earn slightly less than they did back then.... They then profiled two different...

By "we" I refer to the human race itself. I'm listening to author Jeffery Sachs, who's discussing his new book, Common Wealth. He's the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He paints a rather bleak picture. We are all familiar with these things, of course...