A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats?

Donald Unger
2 min readJun 16, 2019

Most of the World is in the Water!

Photo by Andy Falconer on Unsplash

The “don’t mess with the system” crowd seems to view the global economy as a cruise ship that we trifle with at our peril.

It’s just humming along, let’s not mess up a good thing!

Except . . . most of us aren’t on the cruise ship — which carries only about eight percent of the world’s population: 23% are being towed on a barge, behind the cruise ship; 69% are on a garbage barge behind that — and The 1%, or course, have their own, helipad-equipped, private yachts.

Not imaginary numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_wealth_globally.jpg

Less than 1% of the global population owns 41% of the world’s wealth; under 8% owns an equal amount; 23% own 14%; two thirds of the population are left with just 3% of global wealth.

So . . . 83% goes to the top 9% and the “bottom” two thirds of the world’s population gets by on 3% of global wealth. The US mirrors this: 80% of wealth is held by the wealthiest 10%, with half that going to the top one percent; the rest is parceled out across the remaining 90% of the population.

Looking for the fuse that triggered The Trump Bomb, and other “Populist” IEDs worldwide?

Look no further.

Want to stave off a, civilization-destroying, socioeconomic Armageddon?

Fight for economic justice.

People who aren’t “given” equity tend to . . . take revenge.

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Donald Unger
Donald Unger

Written by Donald Unger

I write what I know and what I’ve lived: humor & chronic pain; politics & parenting; business writing & cultural analysis; and . . . ranting (a lot of ranting).