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That article, and really, almost every post here, don't make a damned bit of difference once the tipping point is reached and the 99% get fed up enough to do so
by cognivore 11y ago
That article, and really, almost every post here, don't make a damned bit of difference once the tipping point is reached and the 99% get fed up enough to do something about their situation. They're not going to try and create start-ups, either.
We let the inequality keep growing and someday you are going to see people lined up against walls and shot. Don't think history won't repeat itself.
- sliverstorm 11y agoI'm skeptical. So long as the lots of the poor keeps improving (which it has- nearly nobody lives in single room dirt floor log cabins anymore. Thank you Progress, thank you Technology) it seems unlikely that hordes people's lives suck so much they wouldn't mind dying in revolution- even if the rich continue to get richer. The righteous indignation option (ala Taxation without Representation- the instigators of the American Revolution were all well-off, not economically miserable) could come to pass if the top echelons continue to tighten their grip on the country, but that doesn't automatically come with inequality... hmm.