And The Rich Get Richer Under "austerity"

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No doubt our Rightie contributors will see this as Leftie propaganda.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33952393

"We've seen executive salaries pulling right away from the rest of society, creating this small elite of people that are just paid astronomically."

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I'm sure those two groups do well under austerity or in good times, SevenOP. The former can adapt better to changing eceonomic situations.
It is the case though that 'quantitative easing' helped the better off more than the poor, although perhaps that shouldn't matter as it was a necessary process to stimulate the economy at the time , mainly under Darling/Brown, and it did stop things getting worse for, and ultimately helped, the less well off on the whole.

I'm still not clear though how we can stop the earnings growth for the top earners.