[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Rather than a society of aspiring merchants and builders, we instead have a society of beggars and philosopher-kings.”

Says it all. This is an outstanding article.

[GOPJ]

The shift from capitalism to socialism means that the poor live better than they used to, but that they have nowhere to go. And that the middle class is on the road to joining them in a society with a small upper class and a huge lower class...

...hard to get more insightful than the above...