Pretending there's no escape.

The world's economic problems could be solved. By moving in the direction of more equality. For everyone. By redistributing the world's vast wealth. And it is vast, believe me. But we allow most of the wealth to be concentrated in the hands of relatively few. We allow the few to live in luxury. Vastly superior to the rest of us. Maybe less so than in old and ancient times. But still, we tolerate a wide gap between the rich and the poor. Maybe because that's the way it always was. Right from the beginning of time. But it doesn't have to be that way. We can change economic and political and social systems. So that we have far more equality. But we don't. Because there's a ruling elite. An elite that's entrenched. That doesn't want to give up power. And knows how to keep it. Despite the inherent wrongness of it all. And the rest of us allow it to happen. Because we think we are powerless. That we can't change the system. And so here we are. Living in hell. And pretending there's no escape. No way to correct the course. --Jim Broede