wealth inequality
Rich-poor divide widens
Wealth inequality is the uneven distribution of assets across a population.
While income inequality measures differences in earnings, wealth inequality captures accumulated property, investments, and savings—often passed between generations.
The gap between richest and poorest has widened dramatically in recent decades: Wealth inequality in America has reached levels not seen since the Gilded Age.
- income disparityUnequal earnings distribution
- povertySevere lack of resources
- working poorEmployed but below comfort
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- trickle downSpread gradually to lower levels
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- social historyeveryday life, social class, social movements, working class, middle class
- economic ethicsfair wages, fair pricing, economic justice, economic fairness, ethical investing
- leftismMarxism, socialism, communism, leftist, socialist
- capitalism critiqueanti-capitalism, income gap, class divide, wage theft, corporate greed
- class conflictclass struggle, class warfare, class consciousness, bourgeoisie, proletariat
wealth inequalityegalitarianism
Philosophy of universal equality
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