And are you not receiving the full fruit of your labor? Can you expand a bit more on that concept. What would, in fact, represent the "full fruit" of your labor?

How else could capital become concentrated in the hands of so few.

1. Your wages are too low for the amount of work you are doing
2. Others doing different work are paid more than you

Point 1:
Under capitalism, each worker produces more capital than he receives in return for his labor. This is how capital is concentrated to the benefit of a few. The obverse of this is that some, the capitalist, receives more capital than he produces. Much like a tapeworm in your stomach, which consumes, yet does not produce.

Point 2:
Each is entitled to the full fruit of his labor. No more, no less.

I would like to know why the gap between the wealthiest and the rest of us is growing.

How do we fix the value of anyone's labor?

For instance, somebody with millions of bucks to bet sells a million dollars of a weak stock short. That in itself influences the stock to go down more (selling stocks makes them go down) and then the guys buys the stock back and makes money.

I also think it's lame to harrass LEB and it don't work anyway. At least, if you must, harrass her in an entertaining way so it's not just clubbing her on each page.

Well part of the answer is because a whole lot of people have an entitlement mentality where they just sit around and expect to be provided for

Of course not. How else could capital become concentrated in the hands of so few.

As Abraham Lincoln noted, labor produces capital, not vice versa.

I agree with Crackaddict, that part of the problem is that our manufacturing is going overseas, as decent paying manufacturing jobs helped create the middleclass, but he seems to be saying that what we need to do is reduce the regulations on things like pollution controls.

Is that what you are saying Crack? How do we reverse the trend?

Have you ever read the book "The Millionaire Next Door." It is very eye opening.