POOR THRIVING, cont.

"Whenever you hear that the top 20 percent of household incomes receive almost half of all income, what is really meant is that the top 20 percent produce almost 50 percent of all output."

"Many pundits and analysts sift through the data to find inequalities in income ... [and] usually suggest some new government program or tax that is destructive of human freedom and prosperity."

"Instead they should recognize the many ways in which governments hold people down - in the United States and elsewhere - and figure out how to end those oppressive measures."