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The Rich Don’t Want to Share and They Don’t Want to Do Their Own Work
And they’re taking the rest of us down.
In the system known as capitalism, being wealthy relies on people living in poverty. The two go together like a horse and carriage- the carriage is pulled and the horse does all the work. That’s how the wealthy world operates. The horse doesn’t get fed unless it does what the carriage owner says. It might even be whipped for showing too much independence. And if that doesn’t work, it can be sent to the slaughterhouse.
Horse burgers anyone?
That’s the choice most poor people have. Pull the carriage or be eaten by the rich: in other words, be destroyed by capitalism.
The U.S. is the poorest rich nation in the world.
In the United States of America today, in the 2020s, poverty is a large whip wielded by a cruel master. It is also true of many countries worldwide, but the U.S.A. has the highest poverty rate of the ultra-wealthy world.
Ezra Klein, in a recent column in The New York Times, put this idea in stark terms:
The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them…
