Sketchnote for The Dirty Secrets of Capitalism by Nick Hanauer

Some people wake up in the morning and go to work, some people wake up in the morning and go to a protest or demonstration or, depending on the political situation, are part of active resistance. Which group you will belong to is not up to you as much as you might want to believe. On which side of this line you get pushed depends on the political and economic conditions. A man with a roof on his head and food on the table and with a promise that the future will be better than today is not likely to be a trouble maker. On the other hand, a man with no work, a hungry family and a future that looks grim is quite likely to join not just a protest, but an active resistance.

The power that be work hard to ensure that the equilibrium is maintained — they are able to maximize their wealth and keep squeezing you, but not hard enough to push you on the wrong side of the equilibrium.

I found a TED Talk by Nick Hanauer that talks about income inequality and warn his fellow plutocrats that the pitchforks are coming. In one of the podcasts by Pitchfork Economics, I came across a book called The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel in which he claims that the inequalities in the society were always ended by violence.

Let’s see how the current inequality will be ended.