It is being noticed more and more – President Obama and Pope Francis are currently making it a theme in their speeches – that inequality is growing and that the already rich and powerful are becoming even more obscenely rich (the President and Pope are too diplomatic to use the word obscene but it is the right one) and even more unchallengeably powerful. The richest 85 people in the world own the same amount as the bottom 3 ½ billion people in the world. In the US the richest 1% gained 95% of all the income increase since 2009 while the bottom 90% got poorer. This infamy goes on and on in country after country.
This is an ever-present danger. It constantly lurks in human history
