The isolation of The 10% from the nitty gritty economics of The 90%
is a huge -- and unexplored component -- of wealth inequality.
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“Poverty is an anomaly to the rich. They cannot understand why the poor when hungry do not simply ring the bell”
Walter Bagehot.
Walter Bagehot.
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"A full belly does not believe in hunger."
Italian Proverb
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The rich may not be deliberately vicious.
But they are too stupefied by wealth to be any good.
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G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"
(It is a measure of American politics -- and American complacency -- that we have gone from thinking of Chesterton as a conservative to seeing him as a left-wing radical.)
Widespread conservative criticism of Pope Francis
is a manifestation of this seismic psychic shift.
"Pope Francis Links"