If you want to know in which country we live in, you have to imagine the wealth of this Republic as a huge cake. All the savings, houses and plots of land are included, all the factories, stocks, and bonds. The entire poorer half of the population belongs to only a wafer-thin piece of this cake. It is so narrow that it would fall over when you set it on a plate. The richest one-tenth, however, gets more than half of the cake. Can that be healthy?

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