The American People Are Clueless: Why Income Inequality Is So Much Worse Than We Realize

Jacob Sugarman, Salon: Politics
Wed, 04/01/2015 - 1:30am

In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chris Rock said, "Oh, people don’t even know. If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets." The findings of three studies, published over the last several years inPerspectives on Psychological Science, suggest that Rock is right.

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