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TBF

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10. Right - it's not that downsizing is bad
Wed Mar 13, 2013, 11:40 AM
Mar 2013

in that most of us could learn to live w/fewer material possessions. The problem is the inequality. The top 1/10th of the top 1% are controlling so much wealth in this country that the rest of us are forced to downsize whether we want to or not - while the very richest fly from mansion to mansion etc. In fact one family, the Waltons (owners of Walmart) control a full 40% of the wealth in this country.

There are 2 ways this can be fixed. We can have taxation or we can have a revolution. We'll see what happens.

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