The delta between A-players and B-players in companies has always been high. A-players get promoted faster and they earn more. My guess is that an A-player earns about 30% more than a B-player in that same position for most professions. An A-player administrative assistant usually can earn about 30% more than a B-player in the same position. That's a significant difference and even more when you compound that difference in savings and lifestyle over the course of one's career.
In some professions like sales and entertainment, an A-player might earn 300% more than a B-player and essentially live an entirely different lifestyle. In the future, everyone's jobs will look more like salespeople.
Comment: Problem is, everyone needs to make a living but not everyone can be awesome. But for the 1%, the idea is to lower the pay of people in wealthier countries until it reaches the level of the poor countries. Then we'll all be poor. If they succeed, say goodbye to the middle class.
Comment: A great set of images can be found here from the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Cain doesn't seem to recognize that America has been fully run, for at least the last 12+ years, off the sweat of the middle-class. 401k plan? Dismantled or halved for most people. The ones who still have a job. Retirement, Social Security? Already sitting at the guillotine of Government axing. It's amazing how such a ..person can have such a HUGE disconnect from reality. Then again, this is America.