Saturday 9 April 2011

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%


Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret.

The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top 1 percent eventually do learn. Too late.
 


This is the introduction to a 2-page essay in the May edition of Vanity Fair magazine.
It's written by one Mr. Joseph E. Stiglitz...and is an absolute must read from one end to the other:

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