We are in a very unique situation today.

Although everything the article details is true, the very system that produced the inequalities is collapsing creating a very interesting scenario.

If we do not change course within the short time we still have before a total, inevitable collapse, since this constant quantitative growth, exploitative system is unsustainable and started self consuming, not only the poor or developing countries will have very difficult situations but even the richest countries.

The crisis is non-selective, it is like a vast tsunami washing away everything in its way.

And since the perception of poverty, loss is relative, those who have the most at present will feel their loss most severely, completely devastating them.

If I am poor today, an economic collapse will effect me, but I am already poor, thus I will survive as before.

But if I have everything, the greatest luxuries possible and lose everything, then I might face such a devastated state that I cannot continue, and cannot survive, or only do so in a very miserable manner.

Thus those people who still have the means and power would have any wisdom, they would explore all the opportunities of how to prevent the collapse by changing themselves and the system before it is too late.

The question of course if they have the wisdom, although all the information is around us, we just need to use it.