. The book explains that in order for the ruling classes to maintain their control they would have to focus the lower classes of people and their energies into not hating them, the wealthy. Instead the wealthy introduced the concept of “the other” to the poor and fed them the concept that was the Revolution,that rising up against a tyrannical England and king was on the behalf of a united people.
In today’s America the imbalance of wealth and power still exists, according to Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, “Because our public policies have been owned by the extremely wealthy they have been able to push that wealth even higher, 1% own more than the rest of us 99% combined.”
The book begins with Columbus’