Forum Post: GIVE US YOUR MONEY! - Why the wealth gap destroyed the economy.

Wealth isn’t bad, necessarily. Everyone deserves an opportunity to be successful, more importantly everyone deserves a chance to have a career doing what they enjoy doing. You should be able to be rewarded for doing something well, or for persistence. When it comes to money though, there are three levels, I think. There’s money you need to be comfortable, there’s money to be accomplished, and then there’s money for the sake of sport. Wall Street has had a tendency to aim for the third option.

Whether you’re a 1%er or a 99%er, there’s one thing you really can’t ignore… the middle class is broke. Our economy is broken as a result. For 40 years almost, Washington has been helping the fat cats pad their pockets with tax breaks, union busting, and pushing us, the 99%, to live outside our means, convincing us to live on easy credit to keep the economy going… while our wages stayed flat, or fell. We bought into it. Now you, your parents, your friends, are being crushed under the weight of mortgages, student loans, credit card bills, and we aren’t spending. We CAN’T spend. Economists are telling us we have a “demand” problem, financial rags are saying we need “consumer confidence” to rise. Let me translate what that means. You have the CONFIDENCE to take out more debt to buy shit you can’t afford, so fat cats can get fatter. If you’re in the 1%, you probably already know better. Credit isn’t coming back anytime soon. Spending isn’t coming back soon, either.

Wake up to this fact, if nothing else, 99% - WE ARE THE JOB CREATORS. You, buying gas, buying food, buying stuff you don’t even need is what drives the economy. Except now all the wealth is at the top, so we have no economy. There aren’t any entrepreneurs creating new companies that could create jobs because we’ve already been taken for everything they could get from us.

If you’re in the 1%, I’d be amazed if you didn’t know the day of reckoning was coming. The system as it stands now, as you’ve created it, is completely and utterly unsustainable. You needed to PAY IN to the system, from the bottom to the top, with high wages, pensions, and so on. That was how the Ford ideal worked, that’s what CREATED the middle class. The middle class was the fucking gift that kept on giving, the economic engine. The stronger the middle class was, as long as you had something to sell, you had people willing to buy. Instead you got greedy. You hoarded and gave us debt. You hoarded more and now debt won’t even cut it. What now, you sell to Chinese customers with the shitty wages you’ve been paying them? Or, turn US into a third world country? Then who do you sell to? Or do you just build communities gated with barbed wire fence, and watch America turn to shit while you count your money?

Nothing is going to change until we start fixing the wealth gap. Even if you lose, you’ll still gain, in the form of opportunity. Can you imagine the amount of CUSTOMERS you would have if we gave up trickle down and just started to make it rain? Even if you lost money in the deal, the opportunity you would gain would be limitless. Entrepreneurs would be falling all over themselves for a piece of the middle class pie again. So… how do we manage the logistics of that? Since it’s your money, you tell me.