The book addresses significant pay disparities among workers with similar skills, contrasting fast food cooks with unionized auto workers and average workers with CEOs, whose pay has increased from 15 times the average worker’s pay in 1965 to about 350 times today. It notes the substantial reduction in CEO tax rates since the 1960s, particularly after the Reagan tax cuts in 1988. Historically, top marginal tax rates in the 1940s and 1950s were over 90% for high incomes, later reduced to 70%. The author suggests implementing new top tax rates for the highest incomes, ending reduced taxation on investment incomes over $300,000, and introducing a moderate wealth tax similar to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal.