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  ... review of human history objectively is one long, sad, grim tale of different groups of people treating other groups of people very, very badly.  This applies to every society, every culture, every ethnicity without exception, so far as I can see.   What you describe is a Human Nature problem, not an American one ...
  
  By the way, have you perchance read W. Scheidel's recent work, _The Great Leveler:  A History of  Violence and Inequality .." ?  I'm just working my way through it myself.  Scheidel suggests that the most effective way of eliminating income disparities in market societies that last century or so has been World War ... (probably still considered by most as an extreme solution).
  
  Thanks for your words.