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Due to technological advancements, over the past 35 years there has
been an explosion in production, distribution, profits and wealth creation.
Most of that wealth increase has gone to only one-hundredth of one
percent of the population, to the modern day aristocracy. In the United
States, the 400 richest people now have as much wealth as 185 million
people combined, nearly 60% of the entire population. US millionaire
households have at least $46 trillion in wealth, yet only one-tenth of one
percent of the population makes one million dollars a year.
$46 trillion. Can you comprehend how much money that is and what
could be done with that stunning amount of wealth, the implications, the
possibilities? Especially given the capabilities of modern technology.
Think about how we could evolve society with that astonishing amount of
wealth, and how much better off we would ALL be if we did.
It’s hard to comprehend how much wealth $46 trillion represents.
One trillion is equal to 1000 billion, or $1,000,000,000,000. People cannot
comprehend that much wealth because there is no frame of reference, no
comparison of scale or historical precedent. An entire generation of
stratospheric wealth has been systemically denied to the people and
hoarded into the hands of a few. It's the greatest theft of wealth in history,
a crime against humanity.
Once you wrap your mind around how much wealth $46 trillion is,
and realize how profoundly society can be transformed by it, you begin to
grasp the fact that we’ve been living under neo-feudal rule. If Americans
had a real understanding of how much wealth is being kept from them, we
would have a full-blown societal evolution right now.