On hand hand it is good that the general politician response to the crisis was more democratic than in the last century.



On the other hand the inequality problem and its root cause is much more widespread than the article suggests.



Today the imitating spending is global, as we are not looking at our local neighbours, but we are soaking in the pleasures and desires of the whole world through the media, Internet and entertainment industry.



And this makes us so addicted to the consumption that we became like alcoholics, even when we hear again and again that most of the desired products are completely useless, harmful, and we have to become slaves to the banks to get them, and that this whole over the top production/consumption machinery is self destructing we still cannot stop.



Simple financial adjustments, or "nicer" local politicians will not be able to solve our problem since it originates from our basic human nature, where the inherently more selfish, greedy top layer of the population purposefully manipulates the masses to consume the products they do not really need for money they do not really have, thus becoming completely slaves to the system. But the greedy system stumbled over a certain peak recently, and now the system is falling apart as even the middle class is losing money, status, employment and confidence, moreover the constant growth system has also exhausted itself.



At the moment we are looking at a frozen picture without possible upward movement, with the totally unfair and vast inequality carved into it. And the manipulators have run out of means to cover up the falseness, the make up has come off.



The demonstrations of the last year are just the beginning, as soon as the present cosmetic attempts evaporate the public anger will be even stronger.



Instead of waiting for very unpredictable and possibly volatile scenarios, the different public layers should start talking to each other, honestly taking each other into consideration and start building a completely new human system that can avoid all the mistakes and crimes of the past in a mutual and socially equal manner.