A thought provoking article

A member of the 1% in my hometown sees the handwriting on the wall. A thought provoking article from the land of Coffee House's Bookworm's, Liberal's, and Rain...😏

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html

Originally posted by bill718
A member of the 1% in my hometown sees the handwriting on the wall. A thought provoking article from the land of Coffee House's Bookworm's, Liberal's, and Rain...😏

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html

Originally posted by bill718
A member of the 1% in my hometown sees the handwriting on the wall. A thought provoking article from the land of Coffee House's Bookworm's, Liberal's, and Rain...😏

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#.U8Vv0JRdUsA

...the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.

And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014.html#ixzz37YwYomJN

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