“From 1979 to 2019, wages after inflation rose just 3% for those on the bottom, a paltry 13.7% for those in the true middle, but 160% for the top 1% of earners and 345% for the top 0.1%. Real-world solutions like a higher minimum wage or increased taxes on the wealthy are blocked by big money in politics and creeping corporate journalism, so the tsunami of rage flows into conspiracy theories, most imagined and some real”
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/jeffrey-epstein-trump-scandal-meaning-20250727.html