The empathy gap goes the other way too.  Some rich guy was bitching on CNBC that he didn&#x27;t feel appreciated.  When I was in grad school and a Linux zealot he thought that Microsoft was a great company because it empowered him to make his business work.<p>The political system is dominated by the 1%,  but if you can really piss off 50% of voters you can cause a crisis.  I think ordinary people in the U.S. are experiencing &quot;future shock&quot; and that is what drives them to Sanders and Trump -- no conventional politician can put together a story that makes sense at all.