My gap is wider than your gap.Follow

I've expressed concern to my boss about going to Montana in December since I'm from Georgia and have the instinct to burrow indoors at the first snowflake.

It's been my experience that a Southerner's instinct at the sight of a snowflake is to crash their trucks into something.

October 4th. :) Howdy, neighbor.

Volusia County. So we really ARE neighbors.

I think there is something beneath the earth here, but not too far. It won't be long before you hear its whispers.

Wow! We sure are. What in the wide world of sports possessed you to move to such an awful place? Don't you know that the people here rape dogs and cats and horses-- like all the time? I think there is something beneath the earth here, but not too far. It won't be long before you hear its whispers.

This effect is somewhat self correcting in a democracy though, isn't it? Increasingly so the more wealth is concentrated. The more the wealth is focused in a smaller number of hands, the fewer actual votes those hands have and the more they have to spend to try to influence an increasingly massive majority. I don't think that private wealth is a problem in this regard.

I'm far more concerned about public power and influence allowing a minority to control the majority. And this is far more likely to happen as a result of using government power to "correct" for wealth inequalities by taxing a minority of wealthy people and spreading that money around to the remaining majority (using the money of the rich to buy the votes from everyone else). The wealthy can choose to spend their own money influencing people's opinions (and thus potentially their votes). But that's their choice, and the degree to which they can do this is somewhat balanced by their relative wealth versus base popularity of what they want to do. But when the government can seize their money and use it to buy votes, then you've created a power structure that can much more easily be abused.