The table above shows the change in earnings for the top 0.1% in the USA compared with that of the bottom 90%. It clearly shows how the very top elite (0.1%) have seen a an increase in the overall earnings of 385%. However the bottom 90% which represents the ordinary people have seen a 1% decrease in earnings between 1970 and 2008.  This is even before the banking crisis had truly hit home across the globe, as the capitalists say the numbers never lie.


SHARE OF NATION’S INCOME (USA): This graph shows that the amount in terms of % of the USA’s earnings the bottom 90% take home and the top 0.1% take home is almost the same. So that means the top 0.1% earn as much (as a % of the USA’s income) as the bottom 90% do. It is like the big fat bully eating all the cake and leaving just crumbs for the rest of the school to fight over the crumbs (apologies to fat kids, fat bullies beware it will all come crashing down in the end).

Since 1970 the increase in salaries for the average executive salary has increased 430%, with corporate profits rising by 250%. In contrast the average salary across the board has increased just 25%, you have to remember the people getting the 430% increases are the very people that gamble with the livelihoods of the bottom 90% of the people.

Although these figures are for the USA, the trend is the same wherever the global casino system of capitalism is applied.

 


The graph above shows the amount of the nations wealth (as a %) the top 0.1% of the people take home. The USA might be the worst culprits but the other nations are match a trend of the rich getting far more of the nations wealth more than everyone else.

Although Islam doesn’t stipulate that everyone in society should earn the same it does however encourage the distribution of the wealth. The 2.5% Zakat (Tax) on wealth which is saved for over a year means those with the wealth will want to circulate it via partnerships and enterprise with those who have the skills but not the capital. Combined with a system that doesn’t create this kind of disparity in the first place means figures likes the ones above would be thing of the past.

Those on the streets of Greece have seen the fallacy of capitalism at first hand.

Source of the this data is Washsington Post click here for more information