Suffering as a Feature

Have you seen this?If you haven't, you should. I think everyone needs to. Wealth inequality on a scale this extreme is almost impossible to explain. You have to experience it to understand. Go ahead. Try it out.Where is the top of this graph? Good question. Keep scrolling up. Last time I did this it took me 12 minutes and 51 seconds, but the whole time I had a way out.We get a button on the screen that lets us punch out any time we want: I quit. But do other Americans get an easy way out of the most extreme wealth concentration in history, piled up together all the way down there at the bottom of this graph?No. They don't. That's why we built this website. That's why I supported the updated 2026 wealth inequality video series, because 14 years ago, the original video changed how I thought about the world. I watched it again and again, year after year, because it shows something we feel, but rarely see so clearly — the obscene concentration of wealth and power in this country.People…