"Poverty Is An Anomaly To The Rich... When Hungry, Why Don't They Ring The Bell?

The isolation of The 10% from the nitty gritty economics of The 90% 

is a huge -- and unexplored component -- of wealth inequality.

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“Poverty is an anomaly to the rich. They cannot understand why the poor when hungry do not simply ring the bell”
Walter Bagehot.

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"A full belly does not believe in hunger."

Italian Proverb

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The rich may not be deliberately vicious.

But they are too stupefied by wealth to be any good.

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G.K. Chesterton: "The Anarchy of The Rich"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/gk-chesterton-anarchy-of-rich.html

(It is a measure of American politics -- and American complacency -- that we have gone from thinking of Chesterton as a conservative to seeing him as a left-wing radical.)

Widespread conservative criticism of Pope Francis 

is a manifestation of this seismic psychic shift.

"Pope Francis Links"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html