General Discussion

Probably the only thing that will move the needle. There's nothing that the Plutocrats fear more than the working class withholding their labor. No labor, no capital to keep filling their bloated coffers. Their gravy train stops. You need millions though to disrupt the points of production enough to have the desired effect. Not at all a painless fight back for the working class. Beyond that, the working class in the US is pretty atomized, divided, and lacking the class consciousness and solidarity to make it happen. But who knows. The more the gap between rich and poor widens, and the "middle class" is rendered obsolete, the more likely that kind of fight back comes into play. The most dangerous opposition to the ruling class is the opposition with nothing left to lose.

The top 10-20% on the economic pyramid in this country lives in a fantasy world of delusion that they are immune from economic depressions. 2008 was a glimpse into the fragility of that delusion in these times. When the next economic depression comes, and it will, because it's all unsustainable, those delusions of "prosperity for all" will quickly turn into the cold hard reality of abject poverty for all.