That said, you might think that the normal answerwould no longer do in such abnormal timesafter agreat recession and with 18m people still looking forwork. And, sure enough, every week brings a floodof complaints in the media about the rich gettingricher while the incomes of the middle class stagnateor fall. A survey for the New York Times has justreported that the median pay for top executives at200 big companies last year was little shy of $11m ayeara mouth-watering 23% rise since 2009. JosephStiglitz, the holder of a Nobel prize in economics,claimed in Vanity Fair that the top 1% of Americans were taking in nearly a quarter of thenations income and controlled 40% of its wealth, though others dispute his numbers.
据说,也许你认为常规的答案已经不再适在这个反常的时代大萧条以及1800万人口失业。而且,不出所料的是,媒体上每周都有大量的牢骚,抱怨有钱人越来越有钱而中产阶级的收入没有增加或者减少。纽约时报的一份调查显示,去年,200家大公司的首席执行官的年薪平均为将近1100万美元自2009年以来,达到令人羡慕的23%的年增长率。诺贝尔经济学奖得主约瑟夫?斯蒂格利茨在《名利场》一书中声称:美国最富有的1%的人口持有将近全美国四分之一的收入并且控制着美国40%的资产,但很多人对他的数据存在争议。
As to whether such disparities should matter, that question has puzzled philosophers at leastsince the Enlightenment. This column proposes no definitive answer this week. The point hereis only that Americans do not seem to mind about the widening inequality of income andwealth as much as you might expect them to in current circumstances. By and large, they havepreferred opportunity to levelling; equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome.The trouble with this is that America is a long way from providing equal opportunity. Childrenborn into the bottom fifth of the income distribution are nearly five times as likely to end theirlives there as those from families in the top fifth. Indeed, social scientists are no longer surewhether it is still easier to climb the ladder in the classless United States than it is in thesupposedly class-hobbled lands of Western Europe.
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