“Unless We Want a Revolution”

Robert Reich is at Reddit this morning doing an AMA and promoting his film Inequality for All.

jelvision: “Do you see a closing of the gap or will it only get wider?”

robert reich: We’re coming close to a tipping point where, if income and wealth become any more concentrated at the top, the economy can’t function (the middle class and poor don’t have enough purchasing power) and our democracy can’t function (so much money corrupts it from the top that the majority of Americans give up on it). So we have no choice, realistically, but to reform the system — unless we want revolution.

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