The increasing chasm between the Rich and the Poor in North America is very insidious, startling, as well as very damaging and oppressive. The wide gap between the Rich and the Poor in this country is increasing even as you read this. Something has to be done. I believe it was Aristotle who said that if the gap between the Rich and the Poor continually widens, the middle class will disappear, and as a result the affected society will collapse. I hope this doesn't happen to America. If it does, it may take a long time. However, I am very concerned in light of rapidly increasing privatization as well as the disturbing reality that just about every facet of our society (Government, Economy, Health, Media, Sports etc.) happens to be controlled or heavily influenced by the Rich and their corporations. We are a country run by the Rich, we work for the Rich (whether we like it or not), and we make the Rich (only 15-20% of the population) even wealthier while most of us (80%) toil fruitlessly under wage slavery. Something has to be done in order to even out this very one sided, tipped economic balance scale. I do not think EVERY wealthy person or corporation is immoral, uninvolved, unethical, selfish, or greedy, however, most are and that's the problem. They will take more liberties until something is done. The poor aren't on Welfare, it is the Rich that are on Welfare. Reformation is desperately needed.

The following letter ("A Note of Appreciation from the Rich") is an eye opening, blunt, satirical social commentary. The principles found within it are accurate & truthful, yet everything in this letter IS NOT literal. Keep in mind that I am NOT the original author of this letter, however, I copied and pasted it with the original author's permission. I encourage you to copy and paste it to your site too. You can find the original authors page here.

I inserted "A Note of Appreciation from the Rich" in my site with the hope that it will help educate and bring about awareness (at least in a small way) concerning the ubiquitous yet often unnoticed, deemphasized class struggle in America. In my opinion, it is the eglatarian "American Dream" that is responsible for keeping most of us apathetic, sceptical, or in the dark about the class struggle in this country. Another major contributor to the populace's apathy, ignorance, and noninvolvement happens to be the very pervasive, deeply ingrained belief that we really can't make a difference or change things. This is wrong and we need to be shaken out of our slumber. Read on.


A Note of Appreciation from the Rich


by anonymous

Let's be honest: you'll never win the lottery. On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it - you're a member of the working caste. Sorry! As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us. In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America. (*or Canada) Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us - and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way. But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at. So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and home less street people. Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy. And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!

You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo. So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold." Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against..... We continually push your wages down by invoking "foreign competition," "the law of supply and demand," "national security," or "the bloated federal deficit." We throw you on the unemployed scrap heap if you step out of line or jeopardize our profits. And to give you an occasional break from the monotony of our daily economic blackmail, we allow you to participate in our stage- managed electoral shell games, better known to you ordinary folks as "elections." Happily, you haven't a clue as to what's really happening - instead, you blame "Aliens," "Tree-hugging Environmentalists," "Niggers," "Jews," "Welfare Queens," and countless others for your troubled situation.

We're also very pleased that many of you still embrace the "work ethic," even though most jobs in our economy degrade the environment, undermine your physical and emotional health, and basically suck your one and only life right out of you. We obviously don't know much about work, but we're sure glad you do! Of course, life could be different. Society could be intelligently organised to meet the real needs of the general population. You and others like you could collectively fight to free yourselves from our domination. But you don't know that. In fact, you can't even imagine that another way of life is possible. And that's probably the greatest, most significant achievement of our system-robbing you of your imagination, your creativity, your ability to think and act for yourself. So we'd truly like to thank you from the bottom of our heartless hearts. Your loyal sacrifice makes possible our corrupt luxury; your work makes our system work. Thanks so much for "knowing your place" - without even knowing it!

Rich $cum of America



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