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There's a really good metaphor/ analogy in the “$175 Burger,” considering the portion (nearly half) of the world's population that lives on the equivalent of $2 a day. Those $4 "cheap" burgers are 2 days' "wages."
Now... imagine a bunch of stock brokers, bankers and derivative fund floozies having a food fight with the $175 burgers... and there's the USA's view of the "global war on terror."
It’s all about perspective. Think of it as altitude. ‘Ever been in an airliner at 40,000 feet and you see the stratus deck waaaayyy down there? You are further above those clouds than you are below them when you’re on the ground, and only 100 years ago nothing saw that deck from above except the stars.
In the “developed world,” we think we are prosperous and “free” because we can afford to ride a bus. And that SUV that just whizzed by? That was your boss. See that light twin piston aircraft up there just below the deck? Those are the middle managers… the people who sit on the boards and are part of the “senior management team” of your employer’s holding company, making their way to a small private field.
Now you can’t see it… it’s above the clouds… further than you are below them aboard the wheezy greasy “middle class Amerikkka” bus… there’s a Boeing 747 (like Air
Force One) or an Airbus A380. That’s where the food fight is going on with the $175 burgers… lighting farts with $1000 bills… snorting coke off live lobsters… they’re having a helluva party. THAT’s the REAL “senior management team.”
But remember… they’re still only “managers.” Too Much. Above the atmosphere itself are the “owners.” We can only speculate about who THEY are. The Owners feed $175 burgers to their Attack Dogs.
What- did you think this was about rising food prices? Well… it is.
