All the low-hanging fruit in development have been picked and so the growth or "growth" comes from financial engineering and "efficiency" i.e. forcing workers to do more
Gutting of manufacturing capacity in North America and Europe so as to off-shore it to Asia
Elites having the generational compounding of wealth and connections which gives them edge against the 99%
Development of the MBA class finally bearing its fruit, making managers of today unrecognizable compared to the few decades ago; internal promotions are an exception the higher in the ladder you go
Stock market not being allowed to crash and clean up, in part by holding retirement savings hostage
Polarization of society taking toll on the 99%; despite the presumed idealistic slogans it doesn't matter who gets elected, neither side will touch the elites; meanwhile 99% is not able to organize bottom-up to protest