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The New World Order
Our Income Inequality Is An Existential Threat
Neither the haves nor the have-nots are in shape for the coming battle
You’ve read the descriptions of what the people of Ukraine are dealing with. Most of them were not prepared for their comfortable Western lives to collapse into a fight for survival. Now try to imagine the people you work with and live near going weeks without showers, melting snow to drink and sleeping in underground parking garages.
Does your neighbor Ted know how to prepare food without using a freezer and microwave? Does Lauren in accounting even know how to start a fire?
If the water stopped coming out of your faucets right now, how screwed would you be? Do you have any idea what you’d drink once you finished off the case of Diet Coke and the carton of milk in your fridge?
Oh, it won’t come to that, you think.
That’s just what the Ukrainians with lives very much yours thought until about a month ago.
A great deal of things people never thought could happen here have already happened here. Remember that time we elected an inept conman/reality TV star? Remember that…
