NYT 2009 American workers are overpaid. Gap must close. Happening now. Thanks, Obama.

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129. Nearly everyone in this country has more because it was denied to others.

Have some profited more than others? Yes. Does that automatically absolve everyone else? I don't think so.

It's a broad subject but with what I see are a lot of connections. One example - White folks generally don't leave their home with the expectation that the police might gun their ass down in the street for no good reason, whether they are wealthy or not. That has nothing to do with wealth, it's a privilege they inherit with their skin. All whites profit in numerous ways by living in a society structured to benefit themselves. They could change this, all these working people, but they are too afraid. But instead of making the wealthy pay the price, they go after immigrants, little children, hungry people.

You don't have to be wealthy to be a bastard.

Nothing is coming back on the wealthy yet because we are too comfortable with the scraps we have been given. I do not think it can sustain itself and will come apart painfully, but that's a choice, completely up to us. At 1%, there are only about 4 million of them, which leaves hundreds of millions who should be waking up to stand together. Just like Boetie wrote about 1550, or the Basque did in creating Mondragon, took it into their own hands in the face of murderous tyrants and dictators, we will rise up, cast aside our remotes and jump free of our lazyboys...

any day now.

Until that happens, I think, it's on all of us.

But that's just my thinking.