Life Boats

As the money lenders wail in the streets and bemoan the plight that has fallen on them, the pillars of society trembled. The progress of a century seems to grind to a halt, for profits have evaporated and trend lines gone negative, and measures taken to stop the collapse have had shockingly little effect.

All our goods are made elsewhere, now. Our services are outsourced, too. Toys are painted with lead. The fashions of the day come from sweatshops in who knows where. Median incomes have long been falling while nothing but averages have graced the front pages. A yawning chasm has opened between those who work and those whose gilded lifestyles have glittered and shined more brightly with every passing year.

And so now as the money lenders find their smoke and mirrors gone and the captains of commerce find that they stand on shaking ground and the glitterati decorating the heavens take pause, who do you think is going to get the life boats?

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