<story><title>US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?mcubz=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sctb</author><text>Previous discussions:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14956698&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14956698&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14959346&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14959346&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>US Income Inequality: All for the Top 1%</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonhardt-income-inequality.html?mcubz=1</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arcanus</author><text>Real title was, &amp;#x27;Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart&amp;#x27;.&lt;p&gt;Despite some of the recent coverage, this chart indicates that gains are not going to the top 20%: they are going to top 1%, and particularly &amp;lt;1%.&lt;p&gt;To be clear, this is not many programmers: 
&amp;quot;In 1980, the top 1% of adult earners in the U.S. made $420,000 a year, on average (before taxes and measured in 2014 dollars) — 27 times as much as the average for the bottom 50% of earners. Today the top 1% of earners make an average of $1.3 million a year — 81 times as much as the average for workers in the bottom half.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;HBR also found that gains are increasingly going to the top firms: there is a global set of winners and losers. Inequality is growing everywhere, in all fields. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hbr.org&amp;#x2F;cover-story&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;corporations-in-the-age-of-inequality&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hbr.org&amp;#x2F;cover-story&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;corporations-in-the-age-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>