Analysis | The richest 1% now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years

Would you say J.K. Rowling is a sociopath? Is she being really greedy by not wishing to sell off publishing rights for her books others? Or Bezos, is he being really greedy because he doesn't want to sell his stake in Amazon, valued at nearly a hundred billion of dollars? Maybe.

Wealth is most often measured simply by how much others would pay for their assets. A billionare doesn't mean that they would have hundreds of millions on deposit in cash, although they could..

They aren't evil by not wishing to share ownership or control of the company. Maybe that's for the best of the company, and even the customers.

Poverty and inequality is an issue that is not simply because of extreme wealth or power.

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