[rayiner]

I agree that top-line growth accrues to the middle 50%, but I think the proper question is: what policies maximize the prosperity of the middle 50% (as opposed to maximizing the top-line number)? That said, I expect the answer to that question is more or less what the developed democracies are already doing.

[harryh]

If the top line number continues to accrue to the middle 50% then maximizing the top-line number and maximizing the prosperity of the middle 50% are the same problem (at least in the long term). That's really my point.

[AnimalMuppet]

> If the top line number continues to accrue to the middle 50%...

If. But whether that "if" is true was, I think, rayiner's question.