Kathryn asked:

I worry about what appears to be the increasing rate of spread of capitalist and materialist values, yet
all around me I hear people saying they do not want to live like that. How can something so
outrageously against all that is best in mankind be so inexorable especially when the majority neither
want nor understand it? Is something driving history? Will we get through this (evolve?) to better
forms of society?

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When the Constitution was written, a graduated income tax provision was expected to maintain a
fairly level playing field for we, the people. However that has been ineffective and we are now
controlled by money interests that control the working masses. We are all forced under the work for
money and security at survival levels as ordained by the big operators who need us to produce so
they can reap the rewards.

There is an answer. The Vote. We have the majority vote — if there is a relevant issue to vote upon.
An amendment based on limiting individual wealth to a percentage of our national wealth and affected
by contributions of individuals or families — has been sketched out. It needs to find a distribution
program to spread the word.

Dan Emerson