Economy & Banks

I have held the view that our country is a bit doomed for a long while now. With the world getting smaller as air travel and internet get easier to access for more and more, it makes the gap between rich and poor smaller which is good. The downside to that is that our current "affluent" lifestyles and "well payed" jobs will be taken down a notch(or a few hundered notches) so they are on a level field with the rest of the now much wider market. Not sure revolting will do much unless it's by shareholders, it won't be trying to convince the government but the
corporate investment.

Pretty sure the gap between rich and poor is getting wider. Definitely in developed countries, but probably worldwide as well. The top 1% own 35% of the wealth, and this is only increasing.

If your lifestyle is being taken down a few notches, the problem isn't that the dirt poor people are earning a few more dollars each day, it's that most of the extra wealth that's being created is going to the people who already own everything.

Air travel (and, indeed, any form of fast travel) is a tool mainly useful to those who wish to increase the size of markets and achieve monopolistic or oligopolistic dominance. Never mind all those overworked people flying away on holiday to far-flung places, its real role in the modern world is to enable those who are bent on it to dominate space.

The Internet's main function is, likewise, to help increase the size of markets by harvesting market information. Knowledge of (the) market(s) is a vital requirement for any business, which is why companies like Farcebonk are so grotesquely overvalued. I think the main upshot, if it doesn't get stopped somehow, will be the drive towards larger, more unified markets dominated by relatively few, as is already happening.

I don't see either 'tool' as conducive to greater justice in any way at all.