Pathways to Utopia
There is a war -- with no army, no homicide, no mass destruction, but a war nonetheless -- going on inside the United States of America, tearing this country apart. There are two sides, two factions, two competing forces in this war: on one side, there are the-have, and on the other side, the have-not. On one side, there stands, higher, loud and proud, 1% of the population who control 34.6% of the total wealth; and on the other side, there stands, lower, quieter and not so proud, 80% of the population who control a meager 15% of the total wealth. This war, like every other wars, will settle somehow, with a winner and a loser. In a war of this uneven, the loser will most likely be the have-not. However, unlike any other war, the loser will never rest, they will resiliently fight until the bitter end. There are no bloodshed in this state of the war, but eventually it will be inevitable. How do we, as civilians of this society, solve this conflict without resorting to violence?