I want to warn the top-1% to watch out that -- from my viewpoint -- the guillotine may make a come-back!
I just heard that employees of the CBOT dumped a load of McDonnald's job applications on their OWS protesters. Oh gee that is so funny -- if you are a juvenile or want to instigate a riot.
FOX news proclaims that the OWS crowd is disorganized and don't have a consistent message. Keep turning your backs on the growing discontent, my dear morons.
What did Louis XIV's queen say about "the rabble" in their day? Anyone care to quote? Or just continue to munch on your Starbucks pain au chocolate.
We should look back over history when there has been a terrible imbalance in power and wealth, and extreme poverty has struck due to drought or other disaster. England, France, Russia, etc. More or less, the same thing happens again and again to people "at the top of the mountain.
There is probably some statistics not only about the distribution of wealth, but historical distributions that trigger unsettled behavior amongst the masses. Are the masses now only confined to the poor? What about college students who -- not as lucky as me -- are saddled with a debt load that guarantees their lack of success as a whole. What about those who are chronically out of work; those who had down-shifted in position and salary so many times that they are hoping for those fast food job applications?
If you don't share enough with the "have nots" -- no matter what you think about their deservedness -- you will find adequate security wanting or so expensive that you'd wish you had passed out those shiny dimes when you had the chance. It is not wealth redistribution; it is the basic math of your survival. But first the super-rich must be moved beyond denial.
I am merely in the top 10%. Perhaps the top 5%. I am ready to pay more because I am no fool. Civilization is partly about getting over whining and selfishness and not wanting to contribute (I hate contributing to the building of nukes, for example, but not to roads or schools to keep those pesky children from turning to crime). Civilization is about moving forward and shouldering part of the pain.
