Let them eat cake
It is better to concede some ground and retain your position as a frontrunner than to fight for each inch and risk losing everything. There is a general anti-capitalist/anti-ultra-rich sentiment going around and it is spreading quickly. In the states, it is evident by the somewhat “radical” stances taken by the front runners for the presidential candidate in the Democratic Party. The understanding of radical is through the Western lens of capitalism, free markets, and hyper-individualism. There are talks of implementing a wealth tax and breaking up companies that dominate markets such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. These suggestions have gone from being the ramblings of communist anti-freedom madmen to a more mainstream conversation and public opinion is swaying. The middle class that vehemently defended the wealthy because they had somewhat delusional ambitions of one day joining the 1% is dwindling by the day and the voices of the disgruntled are becoming deafening. The res...