For those of you who participated in “Occupy Wall Street” and similar social demonstrations throughout the world, this discussion is nothing new to you.  Neither is it new to the 1%.  What is missing for the 99% and the 1% is a legitimate means of “distributing the wealth” so that the economies of nations and the world continue to bloom prosperously.  

I do not propose to offer any singular solution today to this problem.  It is far more complex a problem than it has been described.  Let us continue this discussion to become more acquainted with the problem, which you will see is much more egregiously developed than anyone wants to admit, or is capable of unraveling. 
 
“People are people, the world over.”  That is trite, but very accurate when we understand that all people of all centuries of hundreds of millennia have been urged by the three core values of social sustainability (quality of life, growth and equality) to pursue their interpretations of those values.  We discussed the interpretations of those values in past Posts.  What we discovered and generalized was that each individual interpretation of those values is accurate FOR THEM; but, almost no one takes into consideration the interpretation of those values for the sustainability of others.  That is where societies, politics and economies begin their social, political and economic dysfunction, to eventually become less effectiveness, decline, disintegrate and disappear into the strata of archeological spade work. 

This development occurs because in the interpretation of those values, certain commonalities for fulfilling those values arise:  the exercise or seizing of authority, control and power.  Nothing new here, huh?  When several or even hundreds of thousands of individuals feel the same way, (the 1%?) with or without consciously collaborating or conspiring, they can begin to “bend the culture” to their greater benefit.  We are seeing this now with corporations and their powerful and moneyed lobbies and political campaign contributions.  As history repeats itself, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s quote seems timely, “We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, ware profiteering.  They had begun to consider the government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs.  We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.”