I wanted to comment on the thing upthread where the one lady paid for the groceries for the mom that had five kids that was removing things from her cart because she couldn’t afford it and how we should be outraged that this kind of stuff happens every day in “The richest country in the world”.

That’s absolutely right.

We should be outraged.

But here’s the real problem: Although we are the richest country in the world, that wealth is primarily gobbled up by a small cadre of super rich and the remaining scraps tossed to the rest of us.

This isn’t just an opinion. The United States has the HIGHEST income inequality of almost any developed nation. Most of the countries who rank higher than us on the inequality list are corrupt as fuck South American countries or corrupt as fuck African countries.

The wealth disparity should be glaringly obvious to all of us: We have one class of people who can afford to drop $112 000 on an advent calendar, $425 for of designer jeans made to look like they are already dirty and $57 for a fancy bottle of Chilean water while the rest of us just hope that we can scrape together enough cash to get what we need at Wal-Mart and Dollar General to have food for the week, while at the same time hoping our cars last another two weeks without breaking down.

America is an awesome place if you have a shit ton of money.

If you don’t, well…you end up like the rest of us: Just fighting to get by day by day, while other developed nations look on in shock, wondering: “What the fuck is wrong with you people?”

But because we’re the self proclaimed “Greatest Nation in the World”, this massive disparity is little more than the cost of being awesome and kicking everyone else ass.

At least, that’s how some Americans see it.

The rest us of fight on for change, while worrying at the same time that it may never come.

This is not the kind of nation our Founders had in mind.