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In reply to the discussion: We are in a war for our lives. The war is between the 1% elite and the 99%. You are hopelessly [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It is not really their fault, per se, that the society they are protecting is so unequal.
The 99% cannot change the problems that arise from the serious, very serious unequal distribution of wealth in our society. Only the 1% have the means to do anything about it.
Why should they?
The average person in the 1% feels that he or she deserves what he or she has.
But, the issue is not who deserves what. The issue is what kind of society do we want to live in. I want to live in a society that has opportunity for everyone -- the opportunity to find meaningful work, to earn a livable wage (a wage that can provide clean air and water, heat in winter, perhaps cooling in summer, refrigeration, sewage system of some sort, electricity, education, decent clothing, health care, dental care, eye care, some healthy recreation and fun) and to contribute to society and, perhaps raise a small family and own a modest amount of property. If we are to have a society in which everyone has the opportunity for those basics in life, then those in the poor and middle classes have to get a larger share of the wealth.
Only the rich can arrange for that in the economic and political reality we now have. The rest of us don't have the influence or the means to change much.