The effect is stagnant incomes and dying communities. The cause lies in policy blunders and in the unfair, manipulated, overly rigid decision-making that stands behind them. We have seen how entrenched inequality of income and wealth is creating a new aristocracy that is distorting the political system and subverting equality of rights. We have seen how Wall Street has captured the regulatory system and not just made individuals rich but preserved the right to take huge risks while landing the costs of those risks on the public purse. We have seen how technology giants such as Google have been
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