timo2
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Here's my take on the growing income/wealth gap: We are paid for what we produce, not for how hard we work. .
That is how it is supposed to be. However, the argument on the other side is that people are more productive now, but the benefit of that increased productivity is not going to them. It going to others. And when people get sick of not getting a decent cut of the benefits of their productivity, that is when civil unrest will greatly increase...or so the theory goes.
One could make the supposition that the whole middle class construct was to keep a lid on class unrest like what occurred in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Letting the middle income group slip away by not including them in the benefits of the increased productivity is a recipe for future trouble, if one looks at history.
It's not that painful to throw people a bone now and then, is it?