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Co-founder, #FightInequality alliance. Dad, husband, activist, bad Swahili student. This is personal.

Cover the world from Nairobi.
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    Ben Phillips‏ @benphillips76 21 Dec 2016

    Graph in FT. It's almost as if growth hasn't been shared & inequality's been widened to dangerous extremes, breaking society & politics.pic.twitter.com/jBVrTOzFRN

    1:56 AM - 21 Dec 2016
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      2. TradesUnionCongress‏ @The_TUC 21 Dec 2016
        Replying to @benphillips76

        Here's similar by income share rather than total. No surprises there's an echo in the line for the 90% getting organisedpic.twitter.com/rSXE7VkUmr

        2 replies 44 retweets 34 likes
      3. Ben Phillips‏ @benphillips76 21 Dec 2016
        Replying to @The_TUC

        Yep. When people less unionised, inequality goes up. Everyone who wants to #fightinequality should work to ensure more join unions.

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      2. Nicholas Mazzei‏ @Tsar_Nicholas 21 Dec 2016
        Replying to @benphillips76

        @mrjamesob but that's the US. UK is far more equalpic.twitter.com/M0q2qkdPph

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Nicholas Mazzei‏ @Tsar_Nicholas 21 Dec 2016
        Replying to @Tsar_Nicholas @benphillips76 @mrjamesob

        though still not perfect clearly!

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    1. Carl‏ @CarlTSpeak 21 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76 @mrjamesob

      Heh they thought it was bad before, wait for the Trump effect.

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    2. Hugh Risebrow‏ @HughRisebrow 21 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76

      @rupsdr really need to look at a log scale, but probably still shows increasing polarisation of earnings

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    3. Greg Price‏ @ObscureBug 21 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76

      Greg Price Retweeted Ben Phillips

      It's just modern day slavery without the ownership. :( https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/811510544347910144 … @benphillips76

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      Ben Phillips @benphillips76
      Graph in FT. It's almost as if growth hasn't been shared & inequality's been widened to dangerous extremes, breaking society & politics. pic.twitter.com/jBVrTOzFRN
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    4. clive west‏ @clivewest 21 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76 @maxlawsontin and

      a symbol of everything wrong today, consequence is catastrophic

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    5. Ashantin‏ @Ashantin3 21 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76

      @DocRods I suspect the same graph would apply in the UK.

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    6. das v‏ @dasvee 21 Dec 2016
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      "The rich are getting richer every day and the little that the poor man got - it shall be taken away" -Junior Byles-Fade Away

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    7. Wim Grommen‏ @wimgrommen 23 Dec 2016
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      Can basic income transform societies from pyramid to pentagram?pic.twitter.com/dSVOJUEO4D

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    8. Trudy Stevenson  🇿🇼‏ @ambatrud 21 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76

      @ImadMesdoua As Thomas Piketty points out...

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      2. jason streets‏ @OJStreets 21 Dec 2016
        Replying to @benphillips76

        @Sathnam @maxlawsontin That is a very poor graph. You can't tell what's happened to the bottom two lines.

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    9. Joe Curmudgeon‏ @JoeCurmudgeon Jan 26
      Replying to @benphillips76

      The graph is for households. The single biggest reason for this phenomenon is the increase in single-parent households.

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    10. Redshift Media‏ @R3dshiftM3dia 29 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76 @aeiowu

      It'd need to chart real wages to establish that conclusionhttp://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323468604578249723138161566 …

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    11. The Dawg Miner‏ @TheDawgMiner 22 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76

      yet people think there is no correlation between "minimum wage" and "cost of living".

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    12. Martin Smithson‏ @martsmit2001 22 Dec 2016
      Replying to @benphillips76

      @mrjamesob Only more tax cuts for the wealthy can fix this mess.

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