Fed/government actions from the 1970s are responsible for the inequality that has been rising since the 1970s...unpegging the USD from the gold standard in 1971, and the creation of the derivative market at the same time. Money used to have gravity, but now it is created magically at will -- especially in terms of derivatives. The world's money supply now doubles faster than Moore's law.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-and...

https://www.ted.com/talks/maneesh_sethi_money_the_greatest_s...