What the American people really don't understand about the 1%. [View all]

[Yavin4]

In the great film, "Chinatown", there's this great exchange between the gumshoe detective, Jake Gittes, and the rich corrupted, Noah Cross:

Jake Gittes: How much are you worth?

Noah Cross: I have no idea. How much do you want?

Jake Gittes: I just wanna know what you're worth. More than 10 million?

Noah Cross: Oh my, yes!

Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?

Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gittes! The future.

And there it is. Most Americans think that the 1% can just buy more stuff than they can, and that's all. When that's not what the 1% wants. What they want to do is to control the future. They want their wealth to live on forever and have their progeny control the world through their wealth.

The top 1% wants to create an economic royal class whose power cannot be questioned or controlled by anyone, esp. government. If they want us to go to war with another nation, then it's off to war. if they want to pollute the planet, then pollution it is. If they want bailouts from bad investments, then that's what they get.

It's not about buying consumer goods. It's about the future.