As teachers, you'd think they would know that the Gini Coefficient naturally grows in times of economic success and shrinks in times of economic contraction.
This is due to a pretty simple reality which is....Economic growth mostly happens through investment, either in building businesses or the stock market.
The rich have the money to do this. So they do... if they get 51% of the wealth created chances are the gini coefficient goes up.
This really isn't a problem at all... sure the regular people have a lower percentage of the money, but they have a higher amount of it... so they're better off.
To lower or maintain Gini Coefficent, you essentially would need to say to the rich... "You can keep less then half of what you make with money you already had that you invested at great risk."
HOWEVER there is one problematic reality with how things have worked lately. To be put in a second post because I imagine these two things would want to be debated separately if replied to.
