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A Dickensian nightmare: New York City and the Great Economic Divide

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All of this is not only currently legal it is all a big corporate, financial driven profit scheme.

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In America upward mobility, once the intonation of the capitalist class, has been replaced with the ghoulish and nightmarish reality of downward mobility, the privatization of poverty and the incarceration, exploitation and medication of America's 'throwaway' populations; all of this while equality diminishes and the rich, like Bloomberg, get grotesquely richer.

The crisis of homelessness in America is the crisis of capitalism. The Dickensian nightmare of Charles Dickens' Victorian England is now the cruel topography where numerous people reside within many, if not most American cities.

Meanwhile Wall Street and Big Pharma saddle up in their endeavors to seek more financial profits by preying on an unsuspecting public who have been told that free market capitalism is the answer to social disease, incarceration, homelessness, poverty and unrest when in fact it is their cause.

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