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Let's Hear It for Class Warfare!
Eliot, Me.
In your June 30 special issue, "The New Inequality," you showed a bar graph of the relative annual compensations of the top five "earners" in each of five groups (military leaders, Congress members, university presidents, CEOs and hedge-fund managers). The hedge-fund managers bar is more understandable and even more shocking if their $12,600,000,000 figure is measured (on the same scale) in these ways: if printed to its full height, it would travel up through eighteen and a half pages of The Nation, or would stand sixteen feet, eight and two-thirds inches or 5.097 meters tall. I think that amounts to the biggest bank robbery in history.
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