The USA today has more "Disparity of Wealth" between the members of this society than almost any society in all of human history. In my opinion, the "Disparity of Wealth" is the only significant indicator of social violence, or divisiveness. The USA has as much "Disparity of Wealth" as Imperial Rome, the France of Louis XVI, or Imperial Russia. For example, there are 60,000 homeless people in Los Angeles alone that have been thrown in the garbage and forced to live in the street. There are no "real" social services for them. At the time of the Bolshevik revolution, 60 per cent of the factory workers in Moscow were homeless and slept underneath their workbenches. It was THIS "Disparity of Wealth" that fueled the Bolshevik Revolution. The Russian Constitution to this day still guarantees a place to live for every member of that society. You do not see homeless camps in Russia.
Unfortunately, "Wealth never divests itself voluntarily." There is probably no resolution to this current problem of "divisiveness" except Civil War and the redistribution of Wealth in a more equitable manner. I hope I am wrong.
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William Schaeffer
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