Status Updates From A People’s History of the U...

vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.

One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such...