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I have to think that it's always been this way in civilization. Some people figure out how to position themselves at the top where all the money and control is,
by benched 13y ago
I have to think that it's always been this way in civilization. Some people figure out how to position themselves at the top where all the money and control is, a bunch of others can't figure out how to squeeze up there, but do figure out how to service the people at the top for scraps, and then there are the hoards who don't even know how to get into the game at all. I think of it as just mechanical positioning. It's exactly the same as if you sent a crowd of people running to touch a magic pillar. There'd be room for a few to reach the pillar, then a bunch who could see the pillar and imagine what it would like to be one of the ones touching it, then a mass of people on the outside, barely able to see it at all. The only difference in real life is that the crowd is structured by the flow of money, goods, and services, where the flow is wider at the middle.
- el_tophero 13y agoI think the idea is that the valley has taken out the middle, leaving only the extraordinarily rich and the poor.
- Domenic_S 13y agoLet's define terms. Rich == you don't have to work for a living. You might choose to, but you don't have to. Poor == you're on government assistance of some kind, WIC, food stamps, welfare. Can you think of anyone in SV that's in between those two extremes? A "middle class" of sorts? There is a vast, vast middle in SV, it's just that the scale is different which never stops blowing people's minds. Instead of a $50k income being middle class, $150k is.