谈美国的贫富分化----答灰哥/姐,波中兽(波士顿中国裔叫兽)

发达资本主义国家大部分的贫富分化很多年前就已经完成,你没有看见,但不代表它没有发生.这个过程是血淋淋,赤裸裸的,虽然有时会带着温情脉脉的面纱(like the success story of Ford Motors)。历史书里都有，不赘述了.中国的贫富分化正在进行，发财的都是你身边的人，所以你能感受得到.而美国这两百多年间发了财的人都逐渐和没有发财的人分离.就像蒸馏效应一样,沸点低的往上走,沸点低的往下走, 分开了。现在美国真正的富人(叶总is close,但可能还差点)的圈子和一般人交叉很少,所以你看不见。

现在的状况是,你在美国拿工资(I assume)，但有人靠吃dividend和收房租过日子.这些人是很少在你的身边出现的Think about the owners and landlords of all the commercial and residential buildings in NYC, the large share holders, and heirs of those 大财团,大公司，like Hilton Hotels. Sounds familiar? She's the entertainment spice in common people's eyes, but nobody would think of her as the result of贫富分化, because it happened at her grand-parents'era.

I'm just trying to point out some facts many have neglected or choose to neglect. I'm not bashing America, although a little friendly bashing might be what it needs at this moment. America is a great nation that made great success with it's great legal, political and financial systems(They are bad per se, but they are the best). Lots of things can be learned or even borrowed by developing nations that faces polarization problems. For instance, anti-trust laws, 工会(although obsolete here and now in the US), 遗产税, double taxation on dividends, tax on capital gains, progressive income tax structure, and a comprehensive social benefit system, etc. (Not that are good things, but they fight polarization).