The gulf between rich and poor is vast and growing. Where will it end? | Trevor Nunn | Opinion | The Guardian
‘The excess of the Louvre is so palpable, it’s not really surprising that the reaction against such opulence ultimately culminated in the French Revolution.’ Photograph: Carl Pendle/Alamy
From the very beginning, our species behaved hierarchically, just like chimpanzees, with whom we share a common ancestor. We have always colluded in the principle that some people are much more important than the rest, that some deserve the jewels, the gold, the wealth; and in a pyramid formation, society should be upheld by the have-not masses
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Rogues & Vagabonds 
When is enough enough? The eternal question, never really answered to my own satisfaction, that’s for sure. For most of the wealthy, it would seem that the answer is ‘never’.
Best wishes, Pete. x
Looking at the present and the past, I think we can say it will always be never. x
Terrifying in it’s implications of only the top and the bottom. Revolutions come from that.
They do.