Forget Inner City Riots: The Quiet Looting of America Is Happening All Around You

The growing stranglehold on the American Economy by Private Equity, Venture Capital and Elite Investors

Michael "Mick" Bisignani
21 min readOct 13, 2023

The food pantry line just wrapped around the block. Hundreds of people, waiting to fill a few bags of basic food goods. A spectacle that is probably happening on many Saturday mornings across the United States. When I see things like this, I become sad and unsettled for I know that there is something wrong. I know that there is something wrong when there are so many that need assistance for the most basic of human necessities such as food, in what is, still, the richest country in the world.

So on this Saturday morning, I am inspired to ask : WHAT IS SUSTAINING AND DRIVING AN EVER INCREASING LEVEL OF WEALTH AND INCOME INEQUALITY THAT ALLOWS SITUATIONS SUCH AS THIS TO EXIST IN AMERICA IN THE YEAR 2023 ?

Photo by Ashim D’Silva on Unsplash — Ficticious Bank Robbery

Let’s forget for a second what you might perceive as a sly clickbait title and, just for a moment, pause to think, as if it were a short personal act of contrition, about the human landscape and your life, about your families, your neighbors and the overall state of the relationships between us. Then ask yourself the serious question of how much we, as dwellers of a shrinking middle-class…

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Michael "Mick" Bisignani

Professional Technologist, Aspiring Food Celebrity. Catholic spreading messages of Empathy and Equality.