The Age of Inequality
New Scientist July 28 issue has in depth article on inequality. The top 1% in the US is largely made up of people in finance and medical. Could this be the reason the republicans are against financial reform and fighting the health care? Even the companies were wanting health care change. The inequality brings crime, worse public health and social ills in fact the larger the inequality the larger the health inequality becomes. Extra millions to the top 1% doesn't lengthen their lives more but an extra income to the 99% makes a hugh difference.
There was an anthropologist that reported that for the past 5000 years class system has been in place before that it was a shared society. This made me think of a course I took The Terror of History. Professor Teofilo Ruiz University of California at Los Angeles. He mentioned about the land being held in common and the church dividing up the land to family and the rich which caused poverty which in turn began the witch hunts.
A few years ago I took a class with Earth Expeditions to Mongolia while doing research for my paper found out the Buddhists had done the same thing divided up and sold the land held in common and caused poverty it is one the the reasons the Chinese government does not like them.
When there is a large inequality in income revolution is not to far behind. Teddy Roosevelt had enough sense to take action and advert the growing problem. Before then there was a large inequality, the year 1776.