@failedLyndonLaRouchite that's always a good point. do things matter in levels or logs etc?

but this is just one quick correlate of a braod set of trends i think we understand to matter, we have lots of reasons to know that, since postwar mid-20th-C, outcome dispersion and various forms of social contestation are increasing at the same time as we've seen highly unequal capture of financial claims that grow faster than the economy, and they seem likely to be related.