3 Ways Elites Rig the System

By Michael Lind, Salon
Posted on November 9, 2011, Printed on November 12, 2011

A growing number of Americans suspect that the American economic system is rigged in favor of the rich and merely affluent. That growing number of Americans is right.

Here are three of the many ways that markets for compensation are rigged to benefit not only the top 1 percent but also the top 10 percent, a group that includes many well-paid professionals: