>>>People graduate and get jobs today as well, but somehow they do not get the same windfall of goodies as their parents. How come ?
>While most elders (those good old republicans) will simply claim: 'We worked much harder back then!' or 'We were frugal and responsible with money!' 'We fought wars!' and so for... (whereas their children became somehow useless left wing loonies! {g} )
>All of them believe that they hard-earned all their money 100%. Whereas truth might be little bit different; Maybe they were just given much more money for roughly the same effort?
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>Good point!
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>FWIW, my father's tax peaked at 69% but his affluence remained in balance because everybody in his earning bracket paid that and all prices were set according to available spending power. That was before the anomalies and unjustified mega-salaries etc etc began to distort the system.

Just a gut feeling - not even begun to search for numbers! - is money/free liquidity is NOT flowing into unjustified salaries but into
some corporate systems belonging sometimes to investors, sometimes banks. YMMV, but even a couple of million for the very top head honchos would IMO not suck that much up and create such distortions.