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How America’s ownership gap will define the Great Disparity of this economic crisis

The Ownership Crisis Yancey Strickler 9 min read · May 17, 2020 -- 1 Listen Share It’s getting harder to remember life before, but we’re still in the early, “in it together” phase of this crisis. Barely. The stratification of society that was already here is becoming clear again. The gap between who has power and who doesn’t — already big — is getting bigger. Here’s how economist Umair Haque describes the situation : The economy has been divided into a kind of caste system. At the very top are the owners of technocapital — Bloombergs and Bezoses and whatnot: they’re a tiny class of mega-billio

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