{"id":23508,"date":"2016-12-24T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23508"},"modified":"2016-12-24T13:26:05","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T18:26:05","slug":"the-locust-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/12\/24\/the-locust-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Locust Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ribbonfarm<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbonfarm.com\/2013\/04\/03\/the-locust-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Locust Economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe war between the 1% and 99% seems to play out with the 1% and the 90% collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle \u2014 the Jeffersonian middle class.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is rather long, but I found the writing entertaining enough to keep me interested. It is also very educational.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, my sharing this post with you is participating in the locust horde.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to be a locust on the internet. I keep promoting the idea of how people can defend themselves from locusts like me, but they don&#8217;t seem to catch on. Perhaps one day they will wake up to how things have to change.  See my previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/09\/24\/monetizing-internet-content-a-working-example\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monetizing Internet Content \u2013 A Working Example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jo\u00e3o Geada for sharing this locust article on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ribbonfarm has the article The Locust Economy. The war between the 1% and 99% seems to play out with the 1% and the 90% collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle \u2014 the Jeffersonian middle class. The article is rather long, but I found the writing entertaining enough to keep me interested. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23520,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23508\/revisions\/23520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}