The private household net worth in the U.S. has doubled in the past ten years, increasing from $48 trillion to over $108 trillion. Most of this gain resulted from financial asset price increase of which 75% are owned by the wealthiest 5% (data from the Fed's Flow of Funds reports 2010 and 2019, and from State of Working America's Wealth by Sylvia Allegretto). And of note also, the top earning 1% captured 58.7% of all income growth in the U.S., 1973 to 2007 (states the report "The New Gilded Age" from the Economic Policy Institute, page 4 pdf version). I'm saying that national economies create surpluses and disproportionately the surpluses are hoarded by the wealthiest, and this is reflected in data, and it also causes social disruption, economic fragility, even poverty. Finance enters into the picture because those saved dollars are looking to grow, therefore reckless lending at times, e.g. the Asian Crisis, the subprime crisis. The root cause is the original distribution of income, and William Lazonick in numerous articles has shown that over 90% of corporate profits of the largest 500 corporations, over ten years, has gone to shareholders in dividends and stock buybacks. The "average weekly earnings" shows the Bureau of Labor Statistics of "production and nonsupervisory workers" was actually higher 54 years ago, in 1965, than they are today, 2019, and that means 80% of workers have about the same "average" income as they had 54 years ago, even though the per capita income has tripled, from about $14,000 to $44,000 (reports the BEA). On the global scene, about 60% of humanity survives on less, and often much less, than $7.40 a day, while in the U.S. the math shows at the median the per capita daily income is about $65. The average of the national income, $15.5 trillion, divided by the total population is about $130 a day. But the median is half that amount. I write a blog: http://benL88.blogspot.com, (and I invite readers to check it out) and I admire Galbraith to the highest. But the essence of this inequality that is severe and potentially debilitating, is a failure to share. The heart is unaware, in a sense, or we don't have our hearts connected properly, and it's often a failure of correct information. The desired goal as I see it is to share the income, and that will require workers pressuring their corporations using new laws re-empowering labor unions (like the PRO Act). And globally it will take concerted plans for a Global New Deal, see the book by Felice. As a world system we have failed, it's time for some self-direction, not a supine permission to market fundamentalism.