The 1% act as if the 99% are the minority...

...and they, the 1%, are the majority. They stare with amusement at those marching in the street. They cannot understand what it is about? They look foolish, wearing their masks and yelling like children, they say. Why don't they get a job, they ask? Why don't the police arrest them? What's their problem, anyway?

The 1% are oblivious to the problems most of America is facing. They are in their comfortable cocoons. It is all just a sideshow to them.

I suppose.

tells a story.

"Who are these people?? What are they doing??"

That was impressive!

protests against inequality makes no sense to them imo.

They know they can BUY whatever they want, including the government that makes and enforces the rules.

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."

And when corporations are considered people with rights, but actual flesh-and-blood humans are not...

The 1% who have the money & are incorporated ARE the majority - at least where TPTB are concerned.

Talk is talk. Action is action.

What they see is that the large majority of the country is still engaged in the business of making them wealthy and powerful.

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Let's say you are born to poor parents. You will not get the same quality education as someone who was lucky enough to be born to rich parents. You will not be able to afford college. Your parents won't know the right people to get you a nice job with a fat paycheck. You can work as hard as you want, but without rich parents behind you you most likely won't get very far.

And that's just the beginning kindergarten level explanation. The world is stacked for the 1% and against the 99%.

Inequality is a structural part of capitalism. Let's say that everyone magically got a good job. No one's working in fast food, no more cashiers, etc.

Who's going to take orders and make the food and give it out in fast food restaurants? Who's going to check out customers in stores? Where will the profits come from if no one is doing the jobs that pay poverty wages?

And that would be why Oakland had a strike, and why a national general strike is being planned for next year. The real Atlas is the workers, and they're going to start shrugging.

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a concept similar to one dollar, one vote.