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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis should end with the bottom glasses shattering because they can't handle the weight
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)enough
(13,237 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Perfect
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)that is, when the bottom row can no longer support themselves and all of the 'privileged few' above them, when the bottom row can no longer put food on the table for their children, that is when the pitchforks come out and the "Committee for Public Safety" gains sway. And the 'haves' have absolutely no idea why or what is happening. They only know that the tumbrils are coming to take them away.
brush
(53,474 posts)I'm going with the Committee for Public Safety.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)but if the bottom is tilted too steep, it becomes UNSTABLE.
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Still, it's a very cool image.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)... and yet we can't seem to afford the things we used to take for granted: infrastructure, education, healthcare, politics free of lobbying, science and the environment.
Something's wrong...
ananda
(28,783 posts)Societies are collapsing, and human behavior
is getting more insane and erratic.
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)The worst thing about this is the fact that the infrastructure on which the oligarchy stands is crumbling from neglect, all because their cronies are diverting resources to the very top.
They have the most to lose and they're going to make like even more miserable in general once this house of cards falls.