re: #467 Justanotherhuman

Let’s start playing the world’s tiniest violins for this guy and his cohorts.

hey guys… he’s one of the good guys. He sees inequality as a problem that needs fixing, and is willing to be assessed higher taxes to support that fix. Higher minimum wage. More robust safety net. Etc.

Here’s another one:

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

But the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.

And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.

If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us. No society can sustain this kind of rising inequality. In fact, there is no example in human history where wealth accumulated like this and the pitchforks didn’t eventually come out. You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It’s not if, it’s when.

Read more: politico.com