"Last year, those 25 hedge fund managers made more than twice as much as all the kindergarten teachers in America combined." Now That's Rich, New York Times, May 8, 2014.
So much for education.
Concentrated wealth leads to concentrated power over lawmakers and regulators and this is a significant portion of the problem. The wealth of the 1% allows them to control our politicians by making it extremely expensive to run a political campaign and more reliant on the super wealthy.

We need not give up on a free market system. We need to take more and better steps to assure their freedom. Here is a short 9 minute video clip of retired Justice Stevens regarding amending the constitution.
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