How are the people with no money paying for the BMWs?

It's perspectives like yours that make me feel like dismissing the whole thing as a bunch of whiners makes the most sense.

How many people ran the US following the revolution? Not even everyone had franchise back then. Hell, a large segment of the population didn't even count as legal persons.

Since this "99%" is demanding that "the 1%" take care of them, I'm pretty sure you've hit the nail on the head.

Nothing you do will ever stop there from being powerful leaders who control most of the power. Being a majority is meaningless, because someone will simply rise to control that majority again.

Much like any other religion, populism never does anything meaningful, but that never stops "The People" from believing in it.

Wow, this kid has fanboys already?

LOL oh Slashdot, never change, never change...

"Rich people should pay to entertain me" is possibly the single greatest populist cause in history! Demand those circuses!

so the adult approach is to whine that you deserve Internet for free? oh slashdot I love you so...

No, you're just one of the few.

There is always the curmudgeonly luddite set who thinks it's cool to talk about how they hate everything new. Congrats! That's you this time.

Yeah, stand up to the man for your right to fuck with people and be entertained without personally earning it. That's compelling as fuck.

Boo hoo. If they want to play with the big boys, they can pony up enough cash to pretend they belong.

My assumption has always been that photons travel at c no matter the "medium" because there isn't really a "medium" per se, just collisions with things that occupy space.

I'm just a dreamer, though. I know nothing of physics.

Small correction for you - The world doesn't even care that it's open.

Well it's only been a few thousand years now, but I bet back in prehistoric times, politicians were fucking awesome.

Dammit, why do powerful people always have power? I want magic land were power goes to the disaffect lazy whiners who want everything handed to them for no effort.