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The rich can stop worrying about a middle-class revolution

• yahoo.com
And that is bumming out America's 1 percenters. "Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society," entrepreneur Nick Hanauer wrote recently in Politico, in an open letter to "my fellow zillionaires."

Hanauer — an early investor in Amazon (AMZN) who says he has been involved with more than 30 startups — cites the well-documented rise in income inequality during the past 30 years as the ultimate cause of a Mad Maxian dystopia he envisions. "If we don't do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us," he writes. "One day, somebody sets himself on fire, then thousands of people are in the streets, and before you know it, the country is burning. And then there's no time for us to get to the airport and jump on our Gulfstream Vs and fly to New Zealand."


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