But right now, in an unprecedented way, you have CEOs making 350 times what the average employee earns. And the gap between the very, very rich and everybody else is growing wider. Last year alone, … The 938 billionaires in America are collectively worth more than $8 trillion. … And it's important to understand that as bad as the situation is now, it has been going on for decades, according to the Rand Corporation, not exactly a socialist operation. (07:29–07:39)
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