why the poor haven't killed all the rich already

Jul 13, 2022 07:20

In the capital [of Mexico], five American dollars will buy you a three-course meal and a beer. You are told that high-end sex workers charge $150 per night. With the rent you paid for your two-bedroom in Crown Heights [Brooklyn], you could afford a luxurious apartment downtown. And yet some people here have as much wealth as the bankers of Manhattan. The result is that Mexico has tiers of inequality that would be unthinkable in America.

“What I have never understood,” you say to Moises [your bodyguard] as he accompanies you to a bookstore, “is why the poor haven’t killed all the rich already.”

Moises smiles. “I wouldn’t know, sir,” he replies.

socialism

Previous post Next post
Up