[Radim]

I like how you just reiterated GP's last "point of irony" there, in a roundabout way.

Because that's how much of the rest of the world feels re. USA/"the west". One-percenters... complaining about their own one-percenters...

And yes, there is deep resentment brewing indeed.

[danghica]

There is absolutely no irony. Extreme inequality is undesirable on any scale. This is consistency, the opposite of irony.

[marknutter]

We'll go with this definition of irony provided by the Google: "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result."

Class warriors wanting to decrease inequality by getting the 1% to pay their fair share, not enter into global trade agreements, and keep jobs in America end up increasing inequality globally by focusing only on efforts to prop up the global 1%, the majority of whom live in the U.S. Sounds pretty ironic to me.