In other words, same as it's always been. The general rule is that inequality increases until a war comes along and burns everything down and levels it to ashes. The world has been relatively peaceful since WW2 ended so inequality has grown particularly egreguous.

The challenge is to figure out a way to reduce inequality without war. I hope everybody agrees that war is a cure worse than the disease.

We have a particularly inept executive that manufactures crises rather than solving them. This isn't the first such in US history.