It was only a matter of time before movements like Occupy Wall Street started to bring years of tension between the rich and the poor bubbling to the surface.
Two-thirds of respondents in a Pew Research Center survey of more than 2,000 consumers said there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the rich and the poor–up 19% from the same report just two years ago.
That means the beef between the rich and poor now ranks higher than three other historically conflicted groups: immigrants vs. natives, blacks vs. whites and young vs. old. (See how the wealth gap is a really an age gap.)
