It is crucial when diagnosing the problems with society and culture in modernity to accurately identify said problems. Because you can't solve problems until you accurately identify them. And one of the absolute main problems with our lives today and over the past numerous thousands of years since the invention of money, on both an individual and societal level, is how wealth has been distributed. Or better said, mis-distributed.
Problems with environment, energy, race, class, education, banking, health, etc... all have economic causes and this is the major broken aspect to how money, the product of our energy, is working on the global Earth spiritual school campus at this time. In medieval feudalism, the king (one bloodline) had 96% off all the money, some landed gentry consisting of a few dozen families who were loyal to the most likely un-honorable king or queen’s family, had 3%, and then all the many thousands of people of the kingdom, who were dirt poor, had 1%. And believe it or not, little has actually changed since then in terms of income distribution.
If one were to ask homo-normalice what they think the curve of income distribution looks like throughout the parts of this planet which use money having adopted commerce, they would likely suspect it looks like either a straight line in a 45 degree angle, from poor to middle class to rich. Or maybe if one was more knowledgeable in economics they would realize that the curve is now starting to get much steeper than 45 degrees. Perhaps 60 or even 70 degrees from lower left to upper right. Well, none of the above are true. The curve is actually a backwards L shape folks. With it going nearly completely horizontal all the way across and then spiking further vertical to the stratosphere when hitting the top 99.9% percentile.
The world’s income distribution, especially evident in the U.S. is not a “Bell Curve”, it is an “L-Curve”. Never heard of this before? Well that’s not surprising, as this would never be revealed on stock market publications or any level of government or corporate media but instead on an off the beaten path website called lcurve.org which takes data from the US Census Bureau, The Internal Revenue Service, and the Economic Policy Institute and translates it brilliantly into a very basic graphical representation which is easy to digest. It’s important to note its data sources were notably lacking in data within the top 1% since we have a society that works best for the morbidly ultra rich minority by the morbidly rich minority who pay legions of Saul Goodman type accountants and lawyers to hide their money in offshore accounts. This is what the "Panama Papers" helped expose.
As long as we’ve visited this L-Curve site, and it’s been for over a decade now, it’s looked like one of those basic early 2000 era websites. Very plain and mainly just text based. At the top it shows a very simple and basic graphic of a stack of hundred dollar bills, which look like a grey brick in its ultra simplistic computer graphic representation on the green ground between two stick figure people. The stack represents the average U.S. household income across the population. There is a slider at the bottom of the small graphic which when adjusted, zooms the camera out to reveal the stick figures at the 50 yard line of a US football field. As one continues to zoom out we see the football field get smaller to be a view of hills and then mountains followed by open sky and then what looks like the beginning of space. With a single horizontal line going across the field sideways and then continuing vertically up and up all the way into what seems like lower Earth orbit. On the scale of the football field graph the bottom 99.9% of the population measure their incomes as stacks of $100 bills in inches. The top .01% measure their incomes as stacks of $100 bills feet or even miles high. The millions of folks who make over $30,000 per year are in the top 1% of the planet's wealth, sure, but within that class is only the beginning of the horizontal line of the L-Curve. On the vertical line of the curve is the total wealth of the tiny amount of people in the vertical spike which nearly equals the total wealth of the rest of the population combined and in there are 6 families who alone have half the wealth on the planet.
Of course there are great rich folks out there doing some good in the world. We’re not talking about those who have a few million bucks. If you do and you’re using it to hopefully share resources to help others via your community then jolly good. But it should be noted that even most of these rich people are also getting screwed in the same bucket with the middle class and poor. For the vertical L-Curve spike shouldn't even be classified as rich. It should be classified as parasitic against the 99.9%. For most working class folks, which is you, me, and everyone we know, have zero idea how staggeringly much money a billion dollars is. It’s 1000 times larger than a million and there are currently single individuals whose net worth is capping over 200 billion dollars.
The published wealth of billionaires, who should actually be called Godzillionaris of course, is typically estimated by their holdings in their own companies. These estimates do not include their typically vast diversified investments. It's true that there are differences among different kinds of income, but political and economic power derives from wealth. Raising many questions about modern societal life. Leading us to dare ask the incredible powerful powerful powerful one word question...WHY? Why does the wealth (which we all help produce) go so disproportionately to the few at the top? Why, in a prosperous economy, is there so much poverty while at the same time having a dynamic where one individual with a dick rocket could almost single handedly pay for every college education - if he wanted to. Why has the lion’s share of the growth in economic booms gone almost exclusively to those in the vertical spike while wages have stagnated?
Many of these questions will be answered in our future insights but the L-Curve highlights political questions around the concentration of wealth producing concentration of power that is fundamentally incompatible with democracy and free and open society. For you can’t have a democracy without a strong middle class.