Growing inequality April 5, 2021 Inequality has become the new normal under neoliberal capitalism and has risen to unprecedented levels. This level of inequality is unsustainable in the long run. Policies like tax cuts for the rich and corporate class, lower wages, privatisation, deregulation and unfair distribution of wealth have created this massive inequality. The capitalist profit system inevitably delivers a much greater reward to the owners and managers of capital than it does to the workers they employ or the customers they fleece. Left to its own devices, wealth in capitalism rises more to the top. The economic system driven by profits, exploitation and greed encourages concentration of wealth in fewer hands. That is the general tendency in capitalism.