Income Inequality - Again

One billionaire groused that the lower 99% shouldn't resent the billionaires and how much they have.

It's one percent versus ninety nine

A billionaire says "You’re doing fine,

You already have more 

Than most of the world’s poor

So suck it up and don’t whine."

A billionaire’s needs must be few

But he still finds some griping to do

All the money and power

Apparently feel sour

He wants love from the downtrodden too.

Tom Perkins, a venture capitalist, wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal comparing the persecution of the "one per cent" to Kristallnacht, and later in a talk suggested that people should get one vote per dollar of net worth.

Tom Perkins, capitalist billionaire

Says the one per cent must beware

“They should change laws to suit us

Instead they persecute us

It’s like Nazi Germany out there.”

And went on to moan that the ninety nine per cent are trying to eradicate the one per cent, then the top five percent, and then the top ten per cent.

It’s the big gap that people resent

But eliminate the top one percent?

There will always be some

With the most wealth and income.

It’s a mathematically impossible event.