This Chart Shows How Rich People Make Their Money Totally Differently From Everyone Else

Last night, Justin Wolfers Tweeted a chart from Visualizing Economics' Catherine Mulbrandon showing Lorenz curves by income source: labor, capital, business and capital gains.

It basically shows that different parts of the population get their income way differently than others - and that the top 20% gets at least half of all income types.

Here's what we're looking at:

Labor:

• The bottom 60% of the population has access to about 25% of all income generated through labor
• The next 20% gets it's own slice of about 25% of labor income
• And the top 20% of the population owns 50% of labor income

Next up is business and capital, which have about the same curve shape:

• The "bottom" 80% of the population has to fight over 20% of income generated through business and capital
• The top 20% of the population enjoys the "remaining" 80% of business and capital income
• The top 20% of the population owns about 95% of income generated through capital gains
• 80% of the population gets the rest

Here's the chart:

We are living in a highly unequal society.