This site addresses the 1% with great wealth and adds complicit politicians – senior academics, professionals and so on who have ‘positional’ influence and celebrates those in that bracket who work for the wider good.
The Occupy movement and many other commentators, including Jonathon Porritt select the 1% with great wealth.
Read Jonathon Porritt’s masterly exposition, Occupying Our Minds, which opens:
“It’s stark, but dividing the world up into the 1% (the self-perpetuating elite currently laying claim to the lion’s share of the world’s wealth) and the 99% (everybody else) is certainly focussing people’s minds. . .”
and ends:
“Capitalism 1.0 has clearly failed. Capitalism 2.0 (an equitable and genuinely sustainable variant of capitalism) could still deliver what most people want: access to a good education and good work; high-quality public services; infrastructure renewed; the environment properly looked after and recognised as the foundation for all wealth creation; and the interests of future generations factored into every decision we take in our own interests today.
“For those in the 1% who remain uncertain or even apprehensive, ask yourself what the alternative is. It’s either that – our last, best chance of enabling capitalism to provide for the needs of all people alive today and those still to be born – or capitalism will implode.
“Why people don’t see this as a proverbial “no-brainer” remains something of a mystery.”
