"our second paragraph is just saying "trickle down works" when we know it doesn't." I was simply pointing out the fact that this story portrays the rich in som

"our second paragraph is just saying "trickle down works" when we know it doesn't." I was simply pointing out the fact that this story portrays the rich in some sort of bubble, where they don't interact economically with the rest. Any who, "trickle down economics", most popular straw-man ever (I theorize). I don't subscribe to it, nor was I recommending it. Let's coin a new phrase: "free-trickle" and let everyone trickle to everyone else. In the economic sense. >"Right now today this minute there are poor children in India living near garbage dumps picking through other people's litter." Are you saying this is due to the rich hoarding their technological advances for exclusive use? Poverty in the third world is a hugely complicated problem. Not to mention the amount of money people, rich people, and government have been throwing at it because it's universally recognized as a "Bad Thing". I'm not going to stand by idly while a small group of people get blamed for something we have all collectively tasked, and funded the government to do. Let's assign blame where it's really due.