Reply #6: But the extremely wealthy did not exist to this extent, even twenty years ago [View All]

[LiberalLoner]

when I lived there. You did not have huge displays of wealth like they seem to have now.

When everyone is very poor, with a few lucky middle class here and there and maybe one or two wealthy, then there is not so much resentment.

When the extremely poor can look every day at people who are unimaginably wealthy...that is when unrest happens. And the poor have been squeezed much harder in recent years. The price of food is going way up, rents are going up, but wages are NOT going up.

The battle cry is "Bread, freedom, social justice."

When people are starving, they fight for their lives.