but it is less unbearable at the top
Timothy Leary
If after a community of monkeys
were trained to exchange pebbles for cucumbers
a select group got better tasting grapes
the cucumber earning monkeys stopped gathering pebbles
in response to perceived unfairness
and exhibited hostility
when some received grapes for doing nothing
are some humans responding the same way
to perceived injustices in response to economic distress
only differently?
Is liberty dependent on limits for some
to provide minimal rights for others?
An imbalance between rich and poor
is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics
Plutarch
If need is sustenance and a temperate climate
and modern society’s social contract
is do not do to others what you wouldn’t want them to do to you
unless you need to
have a few at the top broken society’s social contract
with the many underneath?
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