{"id":346157,"date":"2018-01-31T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-pie-is-shrinking-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T08:44:31","slug":"the-pie-is-shrinking-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-pie-is-shrinking-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pie Is Shrinking &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><i>The ensuing social disunity and disruption will be of the sort many alive today have never seen.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Social movements arise to solve problems of inequality, injustice, exploitation and oppression.<\/b>\u00a0In other words, they are solutions to society-wide problems plaguing the many but not the few (i.e. the elites at the top of the wealth-power pyramid).<\/p>\n<p>The basic assumption of social movements is that Utopia is within reach, if only the sources of the problems can be identified and remedied.\u00a0 Since inequality, injustice, exploitation and oppression arise from the asymmetry of power between the\u00a0<u>few<\/u>\u00a0(the financial and political elites) and the\u00a0<u>many<\/u>, the solution is a reduction of the asymmetry; that is a tectonic realignment of the social structure that shifts some power\u2014economic and\/or political\u2014from the few to the many.<\/p>\n<p>In some instances, the power asymmetry is between ethnic or gender classes, or economic classes (for example, labor and the owners of capital).<\/p>\n<p>Social movements are characterized by profound conflict because the beneficiaries of the power asymmetry resist the demands for a fairer share of the power and privileges, while those who\u2019ve held the short end of the stick have tired of the asymmetry and refuse to back down.<\/p>\n<p><b>Two dynamics assist a social, political and economic resolution that transfers power from those with too much power to those with too little power:<\/b>\u00a01) the engines of the economy have shifted productive capacity definitively in favor of those demanding their fair share of power, and 2) the elites recognize that their resistance to power-sharing invites a less predictable and thus far more dangerous open conflict with forces that have much less to lose and much more to gain.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, ceding 40% of their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/01\/charles-hugh-smith\/the-pie-is-shrinking-for-the-99\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ensuing social disunity and disruption will be of the sort many alive today have never seen. Social movements arise to solve problems of inequality, injustice, exploitation and oppression.\u00a0In other words, they are solutions to society-wide problems plaguing the many but not the few (i.e. the elites at the top of the wealth-power pyramid). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}