Redistribution of Wealth

For your betters, it's even better than you think.

Jeffrey Surratt wrote, "All the while keeping the 20% in control of 90% of the wealth; which is their plan all along."

I may not know anything about money, but I know arithmetic, and I can make the case that the 20% with the 90% never intended to remain just 20% or to control just 90%. I don't have much understanding of the mystery of iniquity, but my understanding of this not-very-mysterious inequity is this:

The 20% in control of 90% of the wealth will exile the dissident population by sending to the gulags the 20% (of the remaining 80%) who control 90% (of the remaining 10%).

The 16% sent to the gulags work there until they die of famine, disease, exposure, or enslavement, and then disappear into oblivion. Of their 9% of the nation's wealth, (as much as) eight parts go to the original 20%, who now control 98%, and (as little as) one part goes to the secondary 64%, who now control 2%.

Each person of the secondary 64% (80% of the original 80%) now has TWICE as much wealth as he had at the beginning, so each of them should be satisfied - quite pleased, one should hope.

The original 20% started with 90% but now has 98% of the nations' wealth. So each person in the original 20% now has nearly 9% more than he had at the beginning - not twice as much, percentage wise, but a healthy 256 times as much increase, in absolute currency, as each of the secondary 64% received.

In addition, the original 20% of the population are now 23.81% of the culled population, each with almost 9% more wealth, so the security of their class standing is markedly increased, even as the material satisfaction of the lower 76.19% has increased.

Of course, simply for the purpose of simplification (of course, of course), we have made the assumption that the redistributed 8% of the nation's wealth is equally redistributed among the 23.81% of the culled population, and the redistributed 1% of the nation's wealth is equally redistributed among the 76.19% of the culled population. YMMV.

So everyone wins! Yes?