This article by a former hedge fund trader on the obscenely easy money culture on Wall Street is worth reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/op...oney.html?_r=0
In another related story, the 85 richest people in the world have as much total wealth as that of the poorest half of the entire earth's population (3.5 billion people) combined:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/...f-of-the-world