Exiled Martian
Was young I couldn't do good, now I can't do Bad
So much for leisurely reading....FFS I think some of these statistics are staggering 
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Honestly Brehs, the way it is going now, I truly do not expect the "good times" to last more than another century or two.
If you think about it World communication has spread the idea, and actual execution, of revolutions around the world in record time. Massive groups at least temporarily co-operate &successfully coordinate, though sometimes extremely loosely: communication cannot displace the need for leaders with strong dictation skills, it can only lessen the requirement to start the initial movement & make the leader's job that much easier.
This means that the more inequality spreads, the worse the separation between lower-class & upper-class becomes, and the more the middle-class fades away completely in those countries where it does [did] exist, more people will take to the internet to have their voice heard. When enough people are pissed off and motivated enough by those who can rile them up to take action, people start taking to the streets.
Lets face it in this day & age, protests are becoming less & less successful about changing anything, & are also becoming breeding grounds for the kind of violence that sparks a fire under a nation of angered citizens to finally announce their support. Sometimes, people of wealth and power actually encourage & fund some aggression. It hasn't happened in the developed world, but that's only because we still have that "developed world" appearance...its so Gin & Tonic Demonic brehs
Truth is that people in power have zero interest in solving these problems
So yea to summarize Income inequality has grown to unsustainable records. The middle class is shrinking, the lower class is growing, and eventually people are going to have to do something about it
LINK
Honestly Brehs, the way it is going now, I truly do not expect the "good times" to last more than another century or two.
If you think about it World communication has spread the idea, and actual execution, of revolutions around the world in record time. Massive groups at least temporarily co-operate &successfully coordinate, though sometimes extremely loosely: communication cannot displace the need for leaders with strong dictation skills, it can only lessen the requirement to start the initial movement & make the leader's job that much easier.
This means that the more inequality spreads, the worse the separation between lower-class & upper-class becomes, and the more the middle-class fades away completely in those countries where it does [did] exist, more people will take to the internet to have their voice heard. When enough people are pissed off and motivated enough by those who can rile them up to take action, people start taking to the streets.
Lets face it in this day & age, protests are becoming less & less successful about changing anything, & are also becoming breeding grounds for the kind of violence that sparks a fire under a nation of angered citizens to finally announce their support. Sometimes, people of wealth and power actually encourage & fund some aggression. It hasn't happened in the developed world, but that's only because we still have that "developed world" appearance...its so Gin & Tonic Demonic brehs
Truth is that people in power have zero interest in solving these problems
So yea to summarize Income inequality has grown to unsustainable records. The middle class is shrinking, the lower class is growing, and eventually people are going to have to do something about it
