Wealth Inequality, Facebook Redesign Spark This Week's Hot Discussions

Wealth inequality is currently a topic of much debate, so when this video showed the difference between the reality and the perception of wealth distribution, it quickly went viral

Through an infographic-style animation, the video visualizes the findings of a Harvard Business School professor and economist, after he asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth was distributed in the U.S. In over 800 comments, our readers debated the findings, compared statistics and suggested possible changes.

Another highly contested story from this week was an op-ed by Mashable Business Editor Todd Wasserman. Todd expanded on an idea that was originally tweeted by Groupon's former CEO, Andrew Mason. In the tweet, he asked for a software program that bounces back emails longer than 50 words. This is a good idea, Todd argued, because one would have enough space to communicate a full idea, but not enough to waste any words. Some agreed that the program would be useful, but the majority of commenters were strongly opposed to the idea.