Ken And Barbie Open A New Embassy
Often cause and effect is not obvious. The direction of the process, and the meaning of the ultimate result may be concealed by a tortuous chain of ambiguous links. Where, how did the cancer begin? Such news comes “out of the blue.” the last thing one expects to hear. The lethal condition was not caused by the diagnosis. The diagnosis, that’s only how we understand it.
In like manner the wealth, prestige and influence of
the uber-rich could not have been “well-earned.” A billion is a thousand million. A billion seconds is 32 years. To imagine a causal link between ordinary exchange of labor for value as cause for such enormous quantity of wealth — beggars common usage; a travesty and corruption of language. The slave owner, the colonial overlord, the trader in esoteric derivatives lives as he or she does in the big house on the hill because the poor and dispossessed majority live as they do in their hovels. The majority have nothing to lose, because they have nothing.
