Something's Wrong With the World Today: Inequality

Something is very broken. Something's wrong with the world today. We're living on the edge! Imagine 10,000 years ago a small village of 100 people. One of those villagers get 82% of all the hunter/gatherer finds brought back to the village. The rest of the 99 people get to share 18%. The 1 privileged person also gets to dictate what that 18% consists of.

I doubt that the 99 people in that village of 10,000 years ago would even let that happen. So why is it happening now?

In a report published Monday, Oxfam called for action to tackle the growing gap between the super-rich and the rest of the world. Approximately 82 percent of the money generated last year went to the richest 1 percent of the global population, the report said, while the poorest half saw no increase at all.

Maybe one big difference helping to allow the disparity is the notion of "Out of sight. Out of mind." The 1% don't have to look at, explain, justify, look in the eye or anything to the 99%. That makes the 99% "out of mind" to them. They live in a protected, and organized, bubble. All of the 99%ers are disorganized. The 1%ers try real hard to keep it that way too!

That's why internet service and cell phones get disrupted during civil strife. You've got to keep them separated. There is only one problem with all this for the 1%. History has proven over and again that this kind of inequality can not and will not stand forever. Like in that 10,000 year old village, it would last for about 2 seconds. Then the 99% would just take what they need without regard for the 1%. The French did it with "The Terror". The English did it with the Magna Carta. The Americans did it with the "New Deal". Every time there has been a real inequality that has caused suffering among the people, the people have risen up to end it.

French Revolution - The Terror and Counter-revolution

All of that tells me the massive wealth if the 1% is only held by them because the 99% allow it. The people are allowing this inequality to be. Something is missing or has not yet happened to cause the 99% to finally have had enough of it. The trigger hasn't happened as of yet. There was a trigger that caused the people of the past to overcome their fear of the 1%, and self injury, and raise up to end the inequality because their own poverty and suffering had become unbearable. They could not endure their suffering any longer, so they rose up to end the inequality, even if at the cost of their own lives.

The poverty and suffering of the 1% must be bearable by them at this time in history. There is a future day of reckoning coming though. It is secretly marked on the calendar. Murmurings of its arrival is all around us as the inequality grows. That unmarked day will eventually come as the people disallow the inequality to be maintained. The granaries will be opened one way, or the other. One of those ways of opening is that the 1% wised up and open the granaries themselves. The other way of opening up is "The Terror" being unleashed upon the 1%.

French Revolution - The execution of Louis XVI

That notion of "The Terror" being unleashed onto the 1% is one of the worst things that could happen to humanity. The 1% has very powerful weapons now, and are willing to use them. I'm afraid that "The Terror" would leave civilization in ruins because of the use of these powerful weapons by the 1%. Then the process would start all over again, only to repeat itself. Humanity in whole, the 1% and the 99%, have got to become enlightened by the study of our human past, and heed its warnings. Otherwise humanity will swing from inequality to bloodbath over and over again. Never advancing beyond the animalistic gratification of self, regardless of all.