"When those far removed from the creation of wealth-- undergraduates, reporters, politicians-- hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth

"When those far removed from the creation of wealth-- undergraduates, reporters, politicians-- hear that the richest 5% of the people have half the total wealth, they tend to think injustice!" Your comments preceding and following this sentence suggest that injustice doesn't enter into the equation. But on the contrary, anyone who's paid attention the past 30 years is well aware that inequality has increased greatly, and that the main reasons are various forms of carefully calculated injustice, such as: 1. Regressive tax policies shifting the tax burden from the wealthy and the corporations to the middle class. 2. Mass wealth transfer scams such as the housing bubble and the S&L scams of the 1980s. 3. Massive spending on foreign wars which benefits a very narrow slice of weapons companies and related businesses - that money could have gone to build up the wealth of the nation, in the form of infrastructure, education, etc. 4. Massive deregulation of the financial industry, which allowed many Wall St. scams to proceed without hindrance. The glib thinking exemplified by the quoted sentence is typical of "libertarian" ideology that doesn't expend much energy on thinking about the problems cited above.