The high wealth gap can seem justified on paper. Then again it didn't turn out very well in 1927.
Things literally cannot continue like this. The upper class is evaporating the middle class. We are headed towards an aristocracy which really shouldn't exist in a democracy. I don't know how many times I've heard occupy wall street getting labeled as "anti-capitalist" but the mega corporations (like banks) that are borderline oligopolies at this point are the real anti-capitalism. If it was real capitalism, GM, potentially Ford, AIG, frannie and freddie, etc all would have collapsed. Hell even around here the utilities were deregulated, and they are blatantly a monopoly. Most 8th graders know about monopolies in capitalism and why they need regulation. (hint: they no longer serve the greater good, and fail to meet optimal supply and demand) There is just a complete lack of common sense all the way up the government chain. Too big to fail is clearly too big to exist, and having firms with that much power goes against the greater good of the country and that is exactly the cue for the government to step in.
We really can't let them turn us against each other. Unless you inherited a utility company or something you should be in the fight for the middle class. I know there are many people aged high 20's low 30's who squeezed through the tail end of the college bubble perfectly fine and are just cutting and running pretending the problem doesn't effect them but it eventually will if it is ignored. So the ones calling occupy wall street a bunch of hippies are just ignorantly sipping at starbucks meanwhile massive defaults are still rippling from the bottom up, so just wait for your turn.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44885991/ns/business-real_estate/#.TpcWMZsr2so
And the defaults do effect everyone. Even if YOU don't default your house value takes a haircut. The more house prices fall, the more mortgages are then underwater. It's ridiculous. Then the banks have to write off the loss somehow, and the government already used your tax money for that one. Even one worse AIG had insured the mortgages and had to write off a ridiculous sum, which would have probably vaporized AIG, but again, whatever, your tax money.
More:
http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/w...ncial-crisis-according-porter-stansberry.html
Can't vouch for the source but it concurs with everything else I read so meh.