This pattern has been supported since our 'Founding Fathers' formed the Electoral College to protect the dominant priviledge of 'land-owners' and slave owners. This is not new. What has evolved over the past 30 years is a growing disparity of income; we now resemble developing nations in that regards. The vast majority of people live paycheck to paycheck while the oligarchy keeps hoarding more and more resources for their own gain.
Your thesis about philanthropy is apt - I was very much influenced by the book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas.
Thank you. May I add to the informative end notes and reading suggestions?
“Any society that fails to limit both obscene levels of poverty and obscene levels of wealth cannot presume to be civilized. While some inequality is inevitable, the current level of human inequality exceeds human comprehension. It has reduced a majority of the world’s people to a modern form of slavery, with billionaires serving as enthusiastic slave masters.”……David Korten
This pattern has been supported since our 'Founding Fathers' formed the Electoral College to protect the dominant priviledge of 'land-owners' and slave owners. This is not new. What has evolved over the past 30 years is a growing disparity of income; we now resemble developing nations in that regards. The vast majority of people live paycheck to paycheck while the oligarchy keeps hoarding more and more resources for their own gain.
Your thesis about philanthropy is apt - I was very much influenced by the book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas.
Thank you. May I add to the informative end notes and reading suggestions?
“Any society that fails to limit both obscene levels of poverty and obscene levels of wealth cannot presume to be civilized. While some inequality is inevitable, the current level of human inequality exceeds human comprehension. It has reduced a majority of the world’s people to a modern form of slavery, with billionaires serving as enthusiastic slave masters.”……David Korten
https://davidkorten.org/when-billionaires-rule-the-world/