To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (12837 ) 8/21/2003 5:22:55 PM From: Wyätt Gwyön Read Replies (2) | Respond to the great thing about America is that there is no organized resentment of the rich. instead, there are all these confused middle class people who buy into arguments which actually benefit the elites and hurt themselves (the middle class). thus the middle class does the rich's work--not just the labor, but also the political work. this is a great benefit to the rentier class in America vs similar countries with large income disparities like Brazil. here, the middle class' willingness to be intellectual lackeys of the rich allows for low taxation and the socialization of police-state costs--e.g., the incredibly large prison population in the US, which reduces the security costs to the rich and allows them greater freedom than they would otherwise have, given their enormous theft of national wealth which would instill class resentment in other societies.
