We live in a world in which less than 4 percent of the personal wealth of the 225 richest people could give all the poor of the world access to basic medical and educational amenities as well as adequate nutrition. A world in which those who sit behind office desks punching keyboards are paid ten times as much as the people who clean the office toilets and a hundred times as much as those who assemble the keyboards in the Third World. Of the surplus wealth generated in the US in the last twenty years of the twentieth century, 95 percent was appropriated and consumed by just 5 percent of Americans.
— Howard Cooper, The Alphabet of Paradise