“Nowadays, our leaders prefer to search for the causes of crime and poverty in the actions or inaction of those at the very bottom of society. The obscene transfers of wealth over the past forty years from that bottom to a privileged few at the top--and from much of the Third World to financial elites in the West--are all excused as the natural evolution of the Market, when, in fact, they are products of unparalleled greed by those who shape and direct that Market.” WisdomWealthPovertyUnited StatesCrimeThird WorldWestern CultureElitism Book:Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America Source: Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America