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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJamie Dimon understands why folks are anti-rich: 'We have left the lower-income folks behind' & 'that's kind of annoying
The bottom 50% of households in the U.S. own only $4.27 trillion of the nations $174 trillion in available wealth. By contrast, the top 0.1% own $25.07 trillion, and the top 99 to 99.9% own a little under $30 trillion, according to Federal Reserve data.
With AI now supercharging the stock market, and richer families already owning the majority of those assets, that divide is only likely to widen.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, is well aware of this phenomenon. In fact, the man worth more than $3 billion according to Forbes says he understands why people are anti-rich. Speaking to Axios, Dimon said the anti-rich thing has been around for a long time.
In his role as CEO of the largest bank in the U.S., Dimon rubs shoulders with some of the wealthiest people on the planet. But he also works for the banks customers who have more standard levels of income.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/jamie-dimon-understands-why-people-are-anti-rich-we-have-in-fact-left-the-lower-income-folks-behind-and-that-s-kind-of-annoying/ar-AA27XtAk
"Kind of annoying" that's quite the understatement.
Biophilic
(6,868 posts)Talk about thinking you were so clever and with it while being totally out of bounds.
Scrivener7
(60,504 posts)Scubamatt
(364 posts)hadn't been intentionally gutted and dumbed-down by the Republicans since the 80s, our kids might be taught about the Gilded Age and the Robber Barons who amassed obscene fortunes, planting the seeds for the great Depression. They might also learn that the things that Trump and his Republicon parrots are now claiming are "communist" are the very type of things that helped right this country after it was devasted by the insane greed of the wealthy.
Disaffected
(6,767 posts)Ritabert
(2,957 posts)Volaris
(11,893 posts)RAISE OUR TAXES (GASP)!!
oh, the horror.
durablend
(9,555 posts)"Why can't we get rid of those useless eaters?"
Spazito
(56,653 posts)it's almost overwhelming.
struggle4progress
(127,507 posts)After I went to all the work of amassing my fortune, Ithey should respect the fact that at the end of the day I'm tired and just need to head home to put up my feet and drink a nice cold frosty one"
orthoclad
(5,419 posts)been around for a long time. Annoying. Is he hearing the sound of Madame Guillotine? Maybe Bastille Day got him thinking.
oasis
(54,548 posts)out the dollar and leave the working class more vulnerable to the oligarchs.