By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
The corporate mass media occasionally mentions in passing the soaring gap between rich and poor but its concern with the problem and its inevitable ramifications runs only skin-deep.
Don’t look to the corporate mass media for a serious examination of savage inequality and its impact on those in the bottom three-fourths of the bell-shaped curve, for to look too closely might inadvertently raise issues not only of the legitimacy but also of the morality of the corporate capitalist agenda.
In the U.S. – as in Canada and many European countries – the gap has become so gaping that it’s as if the rich and the rest inhabited two entirely separate universes.
But they don’t! All too often, as if a caricature of itself, western civilization sees exorbitant wealth and grinding poverty co-existing almost cheek-by-jowl.
Corporate capitalism has divided humankind – in every country in the world – into two separate and distinct entities: Winners and Losers. read more »