If the poor end of the wealth gap are still better off than 90% of the rest of the world, why does the wealth gap matter?<p>That was my thinking for quite a while.<p>However, the one thing that happens here in the US is that the wealthy have more representation and power in the legal system.  Be it federal or local, the systems tend to get slanted against the not-wealthy because the wealthy take over the communications channel to the movers &amp; shakers.<p>It&#x27;s in many ways becoming the new &quot;taxation without representation&quot;.