Quite a creepy mural, but does evoke serious issues. You are likely aware of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”.

Painted by 'artists for justice + peace, May '09' on the side of a church along Princess Street, Edinburgh.

As of late, we are witnessing the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. Money from the needy is being transferred to the very people that have caused this economic crisis. The majority of the west’s population and their children will be servicing this debt for many years to come, with a greater transition to a ‘top heavy’ elitist society. Many will suffer, some will starve and a very few will enjoy a life in abject luxury.

Here are a few, brief, frightening facts:


“In 2006, the top one per cent of American households' share of all disposable income amounted to almost a quarter of all households' disposable income, according to Robert Hunter Wade, professor of political economy at the London School of Economics.


In crude terms, one per cent of the population have a quarter of all the wealth.

Moreover, Wade found the average income of the bottom 90 per cent of the population remained almost stagnant after 1980, although consumption kept rising thanks to the build-up of private debt.

This means that 90 per cent of the American economy was financing their American dream on debt.

In the UK, Wade found the pay gap between the highest and average earners had widened alarmingly.

Back in 1989, chief executives pocketed 17 times more than average earners.

By 2007, those same "captains of industry" were earning 75 times more than the average worker.”

Interesting opinion article:
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