# How the Rich Get Richer: A Chicken Story About Wealth Inequality

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120210621862162436
- Source account: [@ChloeWright_5](https://x.com/ChloeWright_5)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:14
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality) Why do the rich keep getting richer while the poor get poorer?

[0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=3) One chicken explains it. One day, God takes away everyone's wealth, every coin, every house, every field, gone.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=11) Everyone is poor. Everyone is hungry. Three days later, he gives each person one chicken.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=16) The first group is so hungry they cook their chicken that same night.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=19) Best dinner in three days. Last dinner, too.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=22) The second group is just as hungry, but they keep their chickens alive.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=25) If it's a hen, they eat her eggs. If it's a rooster, they keep him for breeding.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=29) The third group has a different idea. They go to the second group and say, "Let's put our hens and roosters together, and we'll give you some of the eggs."

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=37) You see, the second group wanted eggs. The third group wanted chickens.

[0:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=41) Three weeks later, the first chicks hatch.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=43) A few months after that, those chicks are laying eggs of their own.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=46) Over time, the third group raises more and more chickens.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=49) Meanwhile, the first group has nothing left to eat, so they do the only thing they can. They complain.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=55) The second group has enough eggs to get by and lives comfortably.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=58) But the third group now has so many chickens they can't look after them all.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=61) So they go to the first group and offer them work, paid in eggs.

[1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7vPyDdm8x7kd/en/how-the-rich-get-richer-a-chicken-story-about-wealth-inequality?t=65) And just like that, a world where everyone started with the exact same chicken has split in three: the poor, the middle class, and the rich.