Barbara Adde’s Reviews > Everything Is Broken Up and Dances: The Crushing of the Middle Class > Status Update

“And so it is that people slip into poverty. When equal opportunities die. When trenches are dug between social classes. When rights are traded for merchandise, and fundamental goods are swapped for discretionary purchase and impulse buys.
And then, to use the words of an old friend of mine, people get angry, and they don’t even know who or what they’re angry at.”