This is not about ants and grasshoppers. It's about globalization driving down wages, about the death of unions, about tax avoidance, about letting companies evade the costs of the negative externalities they create, about not sharing economies of scale with humanity (see Jonas Salk), about the stock market (a conveyor belt of wealth from the many to the few, and converter of companies into profit-obsessed cancers) and about a legal system that puts human rights at the mercy of property rights. We've commoditized everything, negating its intrinsic value and destroying its dignity. This is about a failure to understand that money is a government creation based on the wealth and institutions of the entire country--an abused commons. It's our own fault that we've outsourced money creation to a smaller and smaller group of bankers, giving them great power but little accountability, and letting them believe they created it. There's very little economic mystery here--mainly people behaving badly.