Link to: "Researchers chart rising inequality across millennia"

This link is too good to pass up, especially as our Republican Congress debates lowering taxes for the wealthy.

"Researchers chart rising inequality across millennia

Findings have profound implications for contemporary society"

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/wsu-rcr110917.php


One paragraph: "Their findings, published this week in the journal Nature, have profound implications for contemporary society, as inequality repeatedly leads to social disruption, even collapse, said Tim Kohler, lead author and Regents professor of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology at Washington State University. The United States, he noted, currently has one of the highest levels of inequality in the history of the world."