Let’s take the 1%, which we abhor, into perspective. OXFAM had released a report (short lived in the media but hey, Justin Bieber was doing something reckless) that 85 people in the world control over half the world’s wealth. A little simple mathematics: 1% of 7,000,000,000 (billion) people is 70,000,000 million people (drop 2 zeros) yet only 85 own half the world’s resources making them the 0.000000012 %. So why is it that we make it into such an acceptable number as 1% instead of seeing how utterly ridiculous it actually is?
You can read the rest @
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/04/the-1-is-really-more-like-the-0-000000012/
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Yes, the entire world is an oligarchy. "The right to vote" means nothing when less than 100 people actually control what happens in the world.
And sadly, few people know or care. We should replace "In G-d We Trust" with "Ignorance Is Bliss (or Strength)".
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