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Upstairs, Downstairs in the US Jun 29th 2012, 19:59 The Surprising Truths About Income Inequality in America: Big Issues: GQ Quote: Guess what, compatriots? The gap between the richest and the poorest among us is now wider than it has been since we all nose-dived into the Great Depression. So GQ sent Jon Ronson on a journey into the secret financial lives of six different people on the ladder, from a guy washing dishes for 200 bucks a week in Miami to a self-storage gazillionaire. What he found are some surprising truths about class, money, and making it in America. Incomes: $200, $900, $5,000, $25,000, $125,000, and $625,000 per week. Most of them pitied the ones with lower incomes, but thought that higher incomes would cause awkward burdens. They also did not have much of a grudge against rich people, if any at all. Except for the one on top, who claims that he is an "enemy of the state" and who is very sore at how lazy everyone poorer than him supposedly is. In effect, noblesse n'oblige jamais.

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