How do you account for the rising income inequalities in the US and in GB?

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There is an obvious concentration of income in the hands of narrow elite today. The richest people always earn always and the poorest always earn less. What then is the reason for this phenomenon? At first it seemed that globalization gradually erases the safety nets that social programs used to create. The movie ?Sicko' by Michael Moore portrayed very well the lack of social programs in the US, and the question of the survival of the Welfare State appeared in GB. With relocations in developing countries, jobs became unsafe, and Americans had to compete with low wages workers abroad. That is why income inequalities are rising.

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[...] How do you account for the rising income inequalities in the US and in GB? There is an obvious concentration of income in the hands of a narrow elite today. The richest people earn always more and the poorest always less. What is thus the reason for that? It seems first that globalization gradually erases the safety nets that social programs used to create. The movie Sicko of Michael Moore showed very well that lack of social programs in the US. [...]

[...] The difference of abilities is then another reason for rising income inequalities. According to Charles Murray new kind of class stratification based on brains was born". I also count this inequalities for the growing number of immigrants in the US and GB, whom employers freely set wages and working conditions. A difference between people's lives is another reason. E.g. income inequalities are highest in big cities like Los Angeles. And greater educational achievement changed the traditional structures of families, which is for Bishop, part of the reason. [...]