Remember when your favorite sports team was YOUR team? Of course not, for decades they’ve simply been another way for the wealthy to make even more wealth for themselves. Every team splits into three parts.
At the very top are the super-wealthy owners. An individual or family or a group of people with more money than we can imagine. For them, making money trumps everything else. If coming second is more profitable, who wants to be a winner?
Below them is a larger group of the coach and players. Every generation has a few superstars who really stand out from the rest. Most players and coaches, however, could easily be swapped out for someone from another team with little effect on the results. Sure, they all want to be a winner, but payments worth more than most of us earn in a year hit their bank accounts every week regardless.
Then finally, below them, are the biggest group by far. The fans. Their blind love and adoration for their team lasts a lifetime, regardless of the highs and the lows. They go to work everyday to make enough spare cash to cover the ticket and travel costs to cheer on their team each week. Even as the costs rise season after season to ensure more profit for the already wealthy owners. And as those profits get bigger, the owners promise more to the players to get the names that will excite the fans. And as the costs rise for the owners, they increase the costs for the fans to maintain their profits. And they and the players get wealthier and are winners always, even if they’re losing games more often than not.
But the fans. Are they ever anything more than losers to the owners and the players?
Your country isn’t too different to a sports team. It’s owned by the wealthy who just see it as a source of more wealth for them. The politicians are like the players, who help the owners to grow their wealth. In return, the owners ensure that the politicians are looked after, especially after they leave government and get obscenely well-paid and undemanding jobs with those they used to serve. And the rest of the people are like the fans. Always the losers.
That helps to explain how the wealthiest 10% of Americans have hoarded 67.4% of all America’s wealth, while the poorest 50% share just 2.5% between them.
Remember when your country was YOUR country?
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