>>This runs a while, but it's worth watching

Have to do it later- start of workday tomorrow morning here! ;-)

What I've noticed: in person, 1%ers (except for the most crass new money) usually are polite and respectful in person when they encounter a toilet cleaner or bin emptier... but in their business lives 1%ers often are ruthless in leaving the least possible speck on the table for the worker and now for the middle class. I'm reminded of European colonial times when a token savage would be dressed nicely and brought to the Monarch for inspection and gentile questions. Thus did the Queen understand and appreciate her savage subjects, though back in the jungle things usually were a little different. The 1% similarly is dissociated from its effects on society outside its own bubble and if they ever did have their full impact on society rubbed in their faces, some are psychopaths who would laugh and urge the poor to to eat cake, but far more would be very ashamed of themselves. IMHO. Whether or how it's possible to harness the best-bred 1% scions to provide leadership in restoring balance, is beyond me. For a start, the likes of Bill Gates or Warren Buffett might do more than just cede fortunes to charity: they might help address the imbalances that lead to accumulation of huge unspendable piles of loot while workers on whom society relies, live in homeless shelters. Buffett in particular may be an expert on betting successfully on the labors of others, but how is that different from any other parasite? I see a distorted economic system with too much emphasis on shaved profit in exchange for nothing of value to the mark.