don't know why i'm continuing to argue economics with somebody who knows nothing about them. it's a measurement of income equality which is a component of quality of life.
look at the countries above us and the ones below us, and then realize we're moving down that list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
the country is going to turn into a handful of palaces and then ghettos everywhere else.