From the other side of the fence.

1% of the globes population own 40% of the globes assets, 10% own 85%. This 10% control global manufacturing, global agriculture,global mining, global transport, stock exchanges, banks, the monetary system and the governments that implement them.

These people do meet in various forums where all are excluded except themselves. They do make decisions that directly impact on most of the world’s population without the direct mandate of those people. Policies that pass unquestioned through our legislative system by both sides.

If I was one of any part of the ten percent, or the two percent that pull the levers, my biggest issue to the ongoing Eden that I, my family, and acquaintances enjoy during our average eighty years of life is the 90% who I have no interaction with or firsthand knowledge of. My pets are more important than the great unwashed.

If you mix with top end corporate or academia you will readily notice that there is a definite “them and us” mentality within the group. We humans look down on each other very easily and the ones who consider themselves furthest removed from the greater part of humanity is that miniscule percentage that controls the lot.

With this degree of control I am looking towards minimizing the strain on my resources given my corium owns 85% of everything. A thought echoed by that wretched Brzezinski who bleated on about the ease of killing a million rather than controlling them in the context of technology and global political control.

There is no moral imperative that the world’s elite must follow except self preservation. So why is it impossible to extrapolate that it is in this group’s primary interest to depopulate the earth. The few see themselves as the custodians and savior of the gene pool and the 90% are just a burden. The thing is that under the system they have built over the past three hundred years their organized greed has ravaged the earth’s resources and environment. They went for profit not sustainability and now they want most of us gone.

Dear Sonofgloin,

You wrote: "If you mix with top end corporate or academia you will readily notice that there is a definite “them and us” mentality within the group."

Have you mixed with them or are you one of them? If not what is the source of your information about their mentality?

Sonofgloin raises a significant issue.
Of course, humans mostly behave in the same way given the same circumstances.
So we can't say that the behaviour of the elites are because they are the elites. No, they're just humans responding to a combination of circumstance, genes and good luck.
There will be those who will say I shoud add hard work to the list, to which I would respond that hard work alone can never get one into the ranks of the elites. One needs the other factors to be there.
So, how do we respond.
The Chicago School of Economics free market ideology has been profoundly discredited. Yet, it is clear that free enterprise is by far the best system for lifting huge numbers of people out of poverty.
So, the best response is the one we have in Australia; a well regulated free enterprise economy. 'Free enterprise' to give us the best economic outcomes, 'regulated' to ensure that our social values are not sacrificed on the altar of free markets.
Not perfect, but, I believe, the best compromise, which provides the most opportunities to the most people.
Anthony
http://www.observationpoint.com.a

David, I went to uni and worked in corporate, so its observation sport.

Well that's sure true Anthonyve.

China was a basket case, before they effectively the private enterprise system in their business.

Both China & the Soviet Union, in their full socialists mode were close to starvation. With out the west they would have starved, as often does North Korea. All three examples of what the Greens & far left Labor have in mind for us.

Now Russia is becoming richer than at any time in history, & China is becoming a major food exporter.

Anyone who can look at these examples, & still think green is good, is obviously a nut case.

Dear sonofgloin,

I also went uni and worked for a corporation. Even though I had a management position I never had contact with the 1%. You must have moved in more rarified circles.