The rich are indeed getting richer, and forcing others into poverty

Below research on the subject

http://www.thersa.org/events/video/vision-videos/ending-poverty

This is strictly my opinion on the matter however little informed it may be..
When the poor and middle class have money to spend, they are forced to spend it. They need to buy things constantly like healthcare, food, child costs, housing, electricity, etc.

When the rich have money, they aren't even inclined to spend it. They sit there with bank accounts (not investments) of millions. This is just money sitting there. Rainy day money.

When the poor and the middle class "save" they save to spend it on a car, or a house, etc etc, and they only save a couple hundred thousand, or even much less. The rich save millions and the business owners send money out of the country to holding havens like luxembourg, belgium, and the caymans, and pay very little on returns. So not only does the rich being richer not improve the country strength as much as the poor having money does, they're not contributing a fair amount of taxes either.

tl;dr
Poor and middle get more money: Spending increase across all sectors, strenthen national power, increases in investing, greater local wealth, increase in market competition, gentrification, large tax revenue.
Rich get money: Increase in luxury goods purchasing, same amount being invested (if money is earned investing without actual growth, it is earning at the expense of others), reinvestments into corporations, lower sales and income tax earnings, increase in nepotist tendency

Over time the super rich top 1% elitists get richer and richer as the poor grow larger in number. The social class hierarchy system has continued since the beginning of human existence. Super rich kings and pharaohs at the top of the pyramid living as gods on Earth and ruling over their impoverished slaves.

I see a video posted by a....

When i have specific hard fact numbers that specifically show that individual gini coefficent is down, and the gap increase between the rich and poor only exists when you account for households.

My guess is you don't really understand the difference between individual gini coefficent and household coefficent... and this is where the problem is resting.

The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer nothing new here.

No offence but did you watch the video, you should if your really interested in the subject, it has a ton of data that you could review

Ok.  I watched it... and I was 100% right in not watching it the first time.  Like I said in the previous paragraph.  The data he is using is not rich people getting richer.  It's Rich households getting richer and poorer households getting poorer.

Which is caused by demographic problems.  

A) In short...  the poor are more and more likely to be unmarried.   Which lengthens out the bottom of household income, because instead of one household where you have an income of 15K you could have one who has an income of 0, and another who has an income of 15K.

B) The Rich and Middle class haven't seen nearly the same drop in marriages, so the bottom naturally pushes the gini coefficent up, as the "middle point" Moved more towards the bottom.

C) Furthermore, the rise in two income families.   Now a days it's common for even two middle class or wealty families to work, when previously this was only the domain of poorer families. (That weren't single parent.)  Two Middle class incomes = one rich person for example.  Two rich people marrying?  That greatly increases the distribution of wealth among the rich, because not only do those two salaries now become one household income!  Someone who previously wasn't in the top 1% or top 50% get "bumped up" to top 1% or top 50% status.

D) Sorting by econmic prefrence is becoming more and more dominant.  Now rich guys are marrying rich women, They have the most in common and are far more likely to meet and talk to each other then poorer people.  Why didn't this happen before?  There weren't many rich women or even middle class earning women. 

I'll put the first one in some really easy to understand math to show you what i mean.

1)   Say you have 6 family incomes in your micronation.

30, 40, 50, / 50, 70, 80

The top 50% have 66% of societies wealth.

Now say the bottom two families split up... so your family income looks like this.

0 (living off welfare) 15 15 40 / 50 50 70 80

Thet top 50% now hold  92%! of all wealth.

Except.  The rich didn't actually get any richer... nobody got any richer.  The poor got poorer due to family differences.  Should we legislate for that?  Punnishing one guy because two people he doesn't even know go divorced?   How should we even legislate that?

I don't think it's a problem, and I don't think they're fortunate. Some of them are just money smart and deserve to be there. The only problem is when the poor is poorer, but if the poor are richer and the rich are richer, then why complain?

nice first post, i trimmed it out so not to spam the post.

Funny thing is in Australia the LIberal Party are the one all for the Rich getting Richer and the labour party are all about unions and equality.

Well thx for at least watching

I found the research in the video quite revealing, I guess we're not on the same page with this one

I also get the feeling your trying to insult me, which is cute ;)