The long and short of it all is that global wealth is moving in a certain, restrictive direction, and into fewer and fewer hands, only at a time when the accumulation of such wealth in the hands of a tiny few has become a virtue… The argument is not really about economic ideology – I think ideology is dead – but a debate about equity and fairness, and the future of people in this world. Is there any hope for the continued survival of the masses in a world being constricted by capital…?
How many really disenfranchised, down-on-their-luck, potentially violent, angry, people – justified or not – does it take to ground a country of say 50 million people? One thousand is enough. Yes, a thousand people can do the job if they are strategic and backed, as usual, by faceless financiers, after all it is easier to disrupt than to organise, to scatter than to put together, to incite than to administer, to destroy than to build. The people who destroyed other people’s…