The concern was, as I think, that some trolls were constantly voting good comments down.

Good point- the wealthy have to look at themselves and live with less.

So right about the wage rates. And the costs of living is just not measured for many by the CPI any more.

Thanks Mike. I wish we had the old system of thumbs up and thumbs down to respond to comments. Maybe it was too hard to administer.

iam sure an economic/environmental collapse will happen 1/2 trillion in debt house holds are treading water on record low interest rates the middle class have used there homes as ATM machines when the bubble pops the anger will spill over in 1987 it was stock holders who got wiped out this time the devastation will touch all levels of society no government will be able to stop the implosion melt down you cant deflate a bubble they always burst.the amount of lies the government is telling and there over sensitive vindictive reaction to the truth sud-justs we are beyond the point of no return

Yeah Cleangreen, this is what Robert Reich talks about. He says the end game of inequality can go two ways. It either breaks apart of snaps back. If nothing is done one of these options is inevitable. I think a lot of people is society have blinkers on and can’take see this. Especially those living in a bubble.

Did you mean ‘when, not if’ ?

‘But how on earth are we going to correct the situation we find ourselves in ?’

It is not possible to ‘correct the situation we find ourselves in’. Current living arrangements are a short-term aberration in the grand scheme of things, and will collapse fairly soon because the fossil fuels required to maintain living arrangements do not exist, and because the global environment is collapsing as a consequence of overconsumption of fossil fuels. Also, the financial system is founded on fraud.

The strange times are about to get a lot stranger, economically, environmentally and socially.

http://energyskeptic.com/2016/limits-to-growth-is-on-schedule-collapse-likely-around-2020/

People will start to get it when collapse has proceeded a little further -probably in 2018 or 2019. At the moment delusions still prevail.

Now with the end this year of Martyn Bradbury’s 5th estate current affairs show ending tonight for the year we need to prepare for the early election we hear may be a really early snap election in April/may 2017 now we need to muster a money raising “Give a little” to mount a legal claim to place a writ in court to get back our half of the TVNZ/Radio NZ back for Martyn to get all his panel and investigative Journalist’s back on the media now to prepare for the mounting of educating the masses to get out and vote for Labour/Greens/NZ First, and other parties who will join to take back our government again for the betterment of all.

I think we could see revolution in our time. Inequalitu will devide this country once it gets more extreme.It will not take much look at French Revolution exactly the same scenario just different times.