The top feeds from the bottom...and incarcerates them too.

[Uncle Salty]

It's riots or bust.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/chart-scares-1-most

"Capitalists have been gripped by 'systemic fear' making them worry not about the day-to-day movements of growth, employment, and profit, but about 'losing their grip'. An interesting recent article by the Real-World Economics Review on the Asymptotes of Power focuses on the fact that the capitalists are forced to realize that their system may not be eternal, and that it may not survive in its current form. The authors fear that, peering into the future, the '1%' realize that in order to maintain (or further increase) their distributional power (their net profit share of national income - which hovers at record highs) they will have to unleash even greater doses of social 'violence' on the lower classes. The high level of force already being applied makes them increasingly fearful of the backlash they are about to receive (think Europe to a lesser extent) and nowhere is this relationship between the wealthy capitalists and social upheaval more evident than in the incredible correlation between the Top 10% share of wealth and the percent of the labor force in prison. In order to have reached the peak level of power it currently enjoys, the ruling class has had to inflict growing threats, sabotage and pain on the underlying population."

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2012/06/20120620_JAILvsWEALTH.png

[Hatha Sunahara]

From around 1620 until 1840, the British managed to get a really significant portion of their population indentured and shipped off to work on productive prison farms called plantations in America, and when that option closed off, they shipped their excess population off to Australia to a whole continent that was a prison colony. During all that period, the British empire grew and grew, and probably did not worry much about the oppression they were inflicting on the population of Britain, and the elite got really really rich. On the other hand, oppression in France led to a revolution. But where in history have the elite taken a fall because they were being too tough on the masses?

If the elite are worried, it's not because of the prison population.



Hatha

[Skirnir_]

It reeks of cum hoc ergo proper hoc in that the posited causation behind the correlation is spurious.

[Awoke]

the capitalists are forced to realize that their system may not be eternal, and that it may not survive in its current form.

Well that's because what they have going on right now is not capitalism in it's true form.
What they are calling "Capitalism" is nothing more than leveraging and hedging derivatives that are the bastard child of fractional reserve lending to begin with.

[palani]

Well that's because what they have going on right now is not capitalism in it's true form.

From history a "tell" is that capitalism and communism both materialized within 10 years of each other around 1840-50. Together they form a dipole and appear from inception to be intended to polarize people into two classes: those who enjoy the wealth of the Earth and those who prefer to share the shortages.

[Awoke]

From history a "tell" is that capitalism and communism both materialized within 10 years of each other around 1840-50. Together they form a dipole and appear from inception to be intended to polarize people into two classes: those who enjoy the wealth of the Earth and those who prefer to share the shortages.

You are preaching to the choir my friend.




America is not going to go down the collectivist road to Socialism or Communism. We fought too long against it in the Cold War.

Capitalism and Communism are both jewish creations. Think of it as an experiment on each side of the globe: One side communisim, one side capitalistic. They have run this experiment to determine which system will benefit their conquest for global zionistic domination the most.
The have deemed communism to be the most beneficial, hence the staged and sudden "fall of communism", which was enacted to have the west let their guard down against communism completely, because it was no longer considered a threat. Trojan horse.


http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?46195-Beware-of-Zionist-Pied-Pipers&p=389055&viewfull=1#post389055
(http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?46195-Beware-of-Zionist-Pied-Pipers&p=389055&viewfull=1#post389055)
and this here:





The “Talmud” remarks, however, that the Jews will not be able to rest, until their rule is unrestricted. The Hebrews have grasped that Democracy and Capitalism, which have allowed them to rule the peoples, have not obtained for them that unrestricted rulership commanded to them by God of which the “Talmud” speaks; therefore the Jews Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels invented a totalitarian system, which guaranteed to them to take from the Christians and Gentiles all their wealth, all their freedoms, and in general all their human rights, in order to place them on the level of the beasts.

The dictatorship of Communist Socialism of Marx allows the Jew to attain this tyranny; and therefore, since its introduction in Russia, they have worked ceaselessly to destroy the Capitalist form of government, which admittedly they themselves had created, but which was incapable of allowing them to arrive at the desired goal.

As the “Talmud” reveals, it does not satisfy the Jews to rule over some peoples, but they must control them all; and as long as they are not successful, they must cry out: “What torture! What an indignity!” This also explains the circumstance why the Jewish-Communist hunger for power is insatiable; and reveals how absurd it is to believe in an upright and peaceful coexistence or in the possibility that Communism will abandon its demand to conquer all the peoples of earth.

The Jews believe that God has commanded them to lay upon all peoples their absolute tyranny, and that this absolute tyranny can only be successful for them through the unrestrained Socialist dictatorship of Communism. As this tyranny must extend to all peoples, they do not rest until they have laid Communist slavery upon all peoples of earth.



From this thread:
http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?46195-Beware-of-Zionist-Pied-Pipers&p=389197&viewfull=1#post389197