Rich and trendy lemmings vs. reality?

In a way, you have to laugh at the absurd stupidity of the uber-rich. Every brainless parasite knows you don't kill your host if you want to go on collecting free food. But these uber-rich got so damned greedy and took so much for themselves that they have collapsed the Western economies from which they drew their wealth in the first place. The stupid fools! Only such psychopaths (see here) could be so blithely inattentive to the suppliers of their stolen wealth.

In the early 20th century, not only Henry Ford but the whole class of industry titans learned that if they wanted to sell things and have a prosperous society, the little people would have to be reasonably well paid. I'm not saying they just woke up one day and realized this like an epiphany out of the blue; it was more like they were forced to understand this by strikes, sit-ins, demonstrations, riots, and so forth. And it looks like it's time for the titans to learn these economic realities all over again. They should consider themselves lucky if they get through it this time without revolution.  Clinging to the First World (Paper is Poverty)

Found this blog looking for this quote: "Paper is poverty... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself." --Thomas Jefferson, 1788