Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
I would have thought that if money was really that invincible that the positions of the Bush and Sanders campaigns would be quite different.
This Time Magazine article outlines the issue about how the show Billions is not far from real life.--and this is what I mean when I say that Bernie is not about denying people their right to wealth or their choice to buy a yacht or a million hats--but he is about keeping the money in circulation.


Unfortunately, the real-life drama of Main Street’s subordination to Wall Street is getting worse. Experts including Adair Turner, the former head of financial regulation in the U.K., estimate that only about 15% of all capital flows within America’s financial system end up making their way into the real economy. The rest of that money just rotates around the high-finance microcosm, enriching the 1% as they buy and sell existing assets to one another, bidding up their value, while failing to invest in research, products, jobs or innovation.
That's the key point.

Of course, having the money and power in the hands of very few people is problematic in other ways as well--ways that have nothing to do with class envy, but let's start with addressing the way in which Wall Street plays chess with people's lives.