&quot;<i>our second paragraph is just saying &quot;trickle down works&quot; when we know it doesn&#x27;t.</i>&quot;<p>I was simply pointing out the fact that this story portrays the rich in some sort of bubble, where they don&#x27;t interact economically with the rest.<p>Any who, &quot;trickle down economics&quot;, most popular straw-man ever (I theorize). I don&#x27;t subscribe to it, nor was I recommending it. Let&#x27;s coin a new phrase: &quot;free-trickle&quot; and let everyone trickle to everyone else. In the economic sense.<p>&gt;&quot;<i>Right now today this minute there are poor children in India living near garbage dumps picking through other people&#x27;s litter.</i>&quot;<p>Are you saying this is due to the rich hoarding their technological advances for exclusive use? Poverty in the third world is a hugely complicated problem. Not to mention the amount of money people, rich people, and government have been throwing at it because it&#x27;s universally recognized as a &quot;Bad Thing&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m not going to stand by idly while a small group of people get blamed for something we have all collectively tasked, and funded the government to do. Let&#x27;s assign blame where it&#x27;s really due.