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Forum Post: We are all the 1%

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 6:32 p.m. EST by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL
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[-] 1 points by thebeastchasingitstail (1912) 12 years ago

Wow, we really are some overfed mofos.

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[-] 1 points by Bleego (28) 12 years ago

Ha, we eat what we are told to eat, the caloric intake of the wealthy in the us is surely lots lower than those who eat fast food and drink soda all day so they can afford to live/have time to work&commute etc.

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[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 12 years ago

True, poor Americans consume calories even more disproportionately than wealthy Americans.

Regardless of our respective tax brackets, you and I are both part of a corrupt system that fights to keep the top 1% of the world's population well-fed, at the expense of people who die from starvation every day. You can't stay neutral on a moving train. Pretending that the injustice that really matters is that some Americans are a lot more rich than other Americans supports the unjust system that keeps Americans a LOT richer than people in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh.

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[-] 1 points by Bleego (28) 12 years ago

The top 1/100 of 1% of this whole world are going to make any such systemic changes impossible unless we see not just mass revolution, but a global movement away from the intrinsically corrupt mixed constitution and it's elections toward sortition and direct democracy.

Love the Zinn reference btw :-) I'll go out on Aristotle - "Elections are the hallmark of oligarchy"

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[-] 1 points by littleg (452) 12 years ago

What we need is a modern democracy. Rich people have taken control over current representative democracy.

The representative democracy in US, UK and other countries is no longer relevant to modern times when every citizen can have a say by using the Internet (PC, Telephone or Smartphone as the interface).

Unfortunately, US will not lead in evolution of the democracy as it exists today. It has to happen in some other country and succeed. That success will attract citizens in every other country to copy the same concepts and bring the desired change.

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[-] 1 points by Bleego (28) 12 years ago

I don't know or care where it will start. But if the global elite continue setting global agenda, natural process will bring us back into balance with the earth, the very very hard ways: plague, flood, famine etc. The less ugly choices are still open to us if we can wrest control from them in time, primarily education, and birth control.

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