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“The RAND Corporation estimates that over those 50 years, $50 trillion in wealth has been shifted upward to a very small number of people while people at the average level of society have not benefited.”
Analyzed on 2026-08-22T05:05:08+00:00 · Last updated 2026-08-22
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The United States is a vastly more unequal society today than it was 50 years ago. And that's partly because the power of oligarchs has been so great for the last half-century that the RAND Corporation, for example, estimates that over those 50 years, $50 trillion in wealth has been shifted upward to a very small number of people while people at the average level of society have not benefited.
Extracted from: 'Oligarchy' is being used more to describe American society. We ask one professor why , NPR
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