It's a perfectly legitimate thing to ponder, even in movies like Denzel Washington's "John Q", and Amazon Billionaire Nick Hanauer's essay "The Pitchforks Are Coming (For Us Plutocrats)" [0].
If you bury your head in the sand and pretend that people will never break the social contract because "inequality doesn't matter" and "macroeconomic indicators look fine", you're going to miss a big part of the picture.
If you bury your head in the sand and pretend that people will never break the social contract because "inequality doesn't matter" and "macroeconomic indicators look fine", you're going to miss a big part of the picture.
[0] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfork...