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Originally Posted by Paul
That's what I find truly depressing. If the 99% could properly comprehend just how much they've been fucked over by the 1% in the past decade we'd have had an Arab spring scenario in the West.
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In past generations people used racism, sexism and national origin as wedge issues to stay in control. Now they have a hard time doing it as these groups have gotten better and better at asserting themselves, most recently the LGBT community has made strong progress.
So now, instead they simply do the same thing along economic lines. Convincing people in the top 2-5% that the people in the 6-99% are evil and vice versa, when in fact the gap between the guy in the top 1% and the guy at 5% is infinitely larger than the gap between the guy at 5% and the guy at the 81% mark of the spectrum. It is amazing to me how many barely rich people and poor people think they should be enemies of each other while a tiny faction of ultra-wealthy post-nationalists continue to pull all the strings.