The question of would you, as a social scientist, predict that the discrepancy between the 1% and a 99% is going to get worse over time is indeed a challenging and thought provoking question. Many of us trying to answer this question, tend to focus on salary. However, wages only make up a portion of the income of the upper echelon, particularly the mega-rich. Much of their income comes from capital gains on stocks and real estate or from the sale of businesses. Given that the 99% are focused on salary and making a living wage, their ability to capitalize on such things as capital gains on stocks, real estate, or sale of businesses. Hence, the old statement that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer comes to mind. If what indeed makes
