This is actually a very important article, and might just be the tool that OWS and the rest of us at GTW (Going to Work) and SAH (Sitting at Home) really need.

This model might be the first step.

The problem with capitalism, as I’ve said before, as this model shows, is that the flow chart for smart business decisions tilts the floor so that all of the wealth marbles run to one corner. I actually think that no one wants this, even the 1%, because they risk losing everything. You don’t need another French Revolution for this to happen (sorry, Karl). It happened just a few years ago.

Now, if there are a series of decisions, proven decisions, that are available that will reduce the slope of the floor, even getting it to occasionally reverse, that section of decision tree will be most valuable to, say, the executives of Barclay’s. After all, Barclay’s began in the early 18th century, making loans and getting capital to flow into the English countryside, the location of the new factories that ran on water power. In other words, they jump-started the events leading to the Industrial Revolution.

The business of the 1% is to create business. They’ve just done a pretty poor job, which creates more pretty poor.