Why is their a fixation on 'income inequality' in media and politics?

usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-07-01/us-income-gap-widened-last-year-as-top-1-percent-gained-most

I know people love reading click bait, and coming away with 'facts' from articles like the above,

But, as Thomas Sowell's research and others has shown time and again, that 0.1% was not the top 0.1% from last year, or years before. That 0.1% are people displacing the previous 0.1%, so the issue is not growth of a stagnant group's income at all, but that those becoming the richest are doing so by increasing measure. If anything, the 0.1% income earners, as group membership goes, are the most liquid income bracket I could imagine given the data.

So is the 'income inequality' or 'rich just get richer' platitude, just envy politics that is tres chic right now for the economically ignorant?

Yes real wages adjusted for inflation to the lower brackets has frightfully stagnated for over fifty years by some measures. But cost of living (even energy, not food or health care sadly which are kept artificially high still) continues to decline at a faster rate.

The fact is, things, in a macroeconomic sense, are getting better. But our classical measures of progress seem rather outdated. And will only continue getting more out of whack with the realities.

I mean, what the fuck is gonna happen when that first resource drone sent out into space tows into stable Earth orbit a haul of more mineral wealth than has ever been mined in human history on Earth? What happens when we suddenly have four times the gold, platinum, uranium (enriched as well), lithium, etc, etc, and able to exploit if for thousands of the cost we do now? And this is in a twenty year timeline I figure at most. How can you not have ridiculous 'income inequality' when a subgroup are exploiting the resources of a solar system with automated labor, while the masses still wish to participate in the market as laborer exchanges rather than as entrepreneurs, investors, or some other role available under capitalism?

Are the poor simply being made dumber? Rather than saying, 'fuck it, let us do away with income tax and just ask for 0.5% corporate tax rate from these mega corps (more than enough to deliver comfortable guaranteed incomes when you are talking trillions and ever cheap automation, 3d printing, home aquaponics, etc, etc) and let people live as semi autonomous homesteaders of a sort, pursuing a NEET life without being a complete leech.

Communism

I mean what the fuck are the big 3 going to do when cars start flying!
You circa 1950

Flying cars for the general population, at least human piloted, are never going to happen I am sure. And believe that was also understood back then.

But comparing that to the wealthiest corporations, which are actively pursuing it (or do you think Space X, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing are all just utopianist passion projects) to the overestimating of what some had in the past is a stretch.

When we haul back an asteroid full of riches, the Jews will demand 90% of it as recompense for the Holocaust, and get it.

Because the metropolitan elite benefit from hampering the global elite.

If you go through the rich lists, most of the really, really wealthy people there have some claim to have earned it themselves. Yes there are heiresses and Rothschilds, but they are a minority.

The metropolitan elite, i.e: the people who control media, academia and government, are the real nepotists. It is they who monopolise education through tactical egalitarianism, their children who benefit most from inheritance, who support democracy because it removes their competition in placing power in the hands of the stupidest to the detriment of their intellectual betters (the practical elite).

They benefit most from the welfare state in all its forms. Whereas the super-rich have nothing to gain from free healthcare, or senior bus passes. And for the truly impoverished it will make little difference. A lifetime of free healthcare can save the average North London upper-middle class journalist enough for a nice holiday home in France.

They earn little enough to escape the brunt of 'progressive taxation', which compounded with the benefits of the welfare state makes them very well off. They have literally everything to gain from harping about 'income inequality'. That's all it is; rhetoric in the class war between the upper middle class and the superrich.

Egalitarianism in all its forms, political, educational, monetary; is the best friend of the middle class because they are by definition mediocre.

Because it gives the lefty socialists/commies more grounds to push their ideology. They frame what is a valid issue (the recession) in a way that endorses their commie egalitarian view of the world. The 'top 0.1 percent' issue is really one outcome of what is a deeper problem (an economic and political system hijacked by (((internationalists))) who pillage western nations of its wealth) and keep everyone focussed on that one truncated view. These simplifies the issue and allows them to push their Marxist dialectics of the wealthy capitalist white man class being way too rich because of capitalism.

The problem isn't that there is a wealthy class; all normal societies have people wealthier than others in some degree (I have seen the standard stats for most function societies be like the top 20% own about 80% of the wealth). The problem is that top .01% is there because the monetary system has drained the wealth from the bottom and middle class, destroyed savings, and caused the politicians to debase our currency to fund the internationalists interests. That on top of that, those business and politicians work together to outsource our manufacturing and production offshore which leaves our low class citizens without proper work. This leads to our current system of materialist consumerism and wealth stagnating service industry wage slaves. Having rich people isn't bad, having a non functioning economy is though.

But that type of thing is too complicated for the standard lefty, and also muddles the water for their ideology. So instead they just say "MUH ONE PERCENT" and demand more Bernie Sanders style programs and more taxes on the "DA RICH" (which they dodge and the regular people get hit). This is the natural progression of the yid; exploit an open neutral capitalist system to drain it of its material wealth, then when the society is spent of most of that type of wealth, slowly implement socialism in order to squeeze out the wealth gleaned from the labor its citizens in its quasi-slave state like system.

To further the meme that you have already lost, can't win, can't work hard for yourself and make a mountain from a little pile of clay. NEETs are much easier to treat like cattle than hard working Protestants who know the value of hard work (hint: it's not money).

Just more defeatist psy-ops from (((them))).

Income inequality is a way to morally justify gibsmedat by pointing out that rich people (usually (((rich people)))) have dat and welfare recipients don't. Also, fixating on it in impersonal terms stops the goyim from noticing who make up an extremely disproportionate amount of the 1%.

Antigrav exists. The problem is that Joe Sixpack will use it in ways that (((they))) don't like, like pic related.