Why does the world continue using a pyramid shaped orginazational struture when this only serves the elite?
410702
because it's the elite that maintain power and they don't wan't to give it up.  It's a closed society and they want to keep it that way.  They are biased, judgmental people and they protect each other.  They don't want to deal with common folk like you and I.
628130
half the world lives in poverty compared to the united states, they almost to a person depend onm their leaders, both religious and governmental to try and take care of them..sadly.. almost all of those leaders are not going to relinquish any sort of power to those people, they would use them and grind them under the heel of oppression rather than give up power...thats how a society becomes a subsistence society with not much chance to emerge as a industrialized nation and from there to a consumer nation\npeople have this wrong impression that america would like to enslave or keep the rest of the world in rags...far from the truth..we would rather have trading partners in every corner of the world and make everyone as prosperous as the next person....thats to our best interests ..not what the leaders who refuse to give upany power or educate their people might tell you
414865
Well hell, they have made a killing already.  Record high.\nThere is one thing that some people will never understand and that is that there are some Corporations throughout the world that don't give a darn about nations, peoples, only their own continued wealth.  In other words there are the haves and the have knots.  And the haves basically can bring down the economies of the world, and still have their kingdoms.  Fact is that just some of the masses these days enjoy more than the past and a bit more educated and thus see what is going on, but still are the masses of haves wanna bees.
285857
pyramids were built by the pharoahs, who were very rich in education and known for best architecture and Engineering skills.\n\nThey planned to built the pyramids as a symbol of the country, which required millions of slaves to built it.\nThe pyramids are ofcourse built in a pyramidal shape.\n\nThey had large pulleys used as cranes to carry mass heavy weight of the soild bricks controlled manly. the large bricks were being pulled by the many slaves with ropes and with greasing on the way of the brick.
560957
Nope. The rich and poor countries are intertwined whether they like it or not. The rich need the poor to exploit and the poor need the rich in order to be exploited. There would not be one without the other.
1159626
Because it's only advertised as free.  The Constitution was originally designed to protect the power and status of the rich... and that still applies today.
856413
Cause the ruling class has the control & media influence to spread the propagnda of what they want the sheep to follow! Instead of them being able to think clearly & independantly like a view of their true financial security as being most important over say getting struck by lighting or shot by a muslim wacko!
813116
The government is the result of the post-revolutionary conniving of the upper classes. The political edifice they erected was one based on preserving the interests of the elite. And so its been. \n\nBy promoting a post-revolutionary nationalism, they have been able to pacify the masses. At the same time, the flawed system has increased inquality that's engendered all manner of corruption.\n\nThe way of cleaning up the government is by separating the elite's interest's from the government's.\n\nIf you think about it, America is much the same way... except for the fact that the capital accumulated has been allowed to trickle down in a way that pacifies the populace and makes them blind to the questionable dealings of the elite.
81864
It is an illusion.  You may recast it as "monetary privelege."  Any color person can have money, and the people in the super-rich class have privelege.  They get hooked in with all the people with money from childhood on.  Therefore they will go to the best schools (or have it available) and hob-knob with all the richie people who run corporate america.  When a person from the elite needs a loan, or needs a business partnership, they all help out their own.  I feel it is difficult to break into that super-elite class, but anyone can.  I may not know how, but it is possible, and it is not limited to white people.  Maybe in 1932 that was true, but not now.
90463
The class alone is not merely parasitic. If not for the luxury class, who would start businesses? Not to mention that the service industry feeds off of this class, indeed depends on the luxury of others (the luxury of being able to afford restaurants, hotels, etc.) to support them. \n\nWe live too closely bound on this planet in every way to consider any part of our society parasitic. The institutions of welfare and the like are parasitic in nature, but the people on these services are not parasitic by nature either. They are merely taking advantage of a service which should not be offered in the first place.\n\nAnd I work full time, and live under the poverty line. This is not the elite speaking. This is a hard worker who believes in earning every dime. Don't blame the rich for being rich. That's a bellyaching waste of time. Worry about yourself, your work, your life. It'll all work out.\n\nGood Luck!
380324
Unfortunately we will always have inequalities...it is the way of the world....it the way capitalism works....we have different socioeconomic statuses the haves and the have nots...someone has to work to make people richer and someone has to lead to make the masses want more things to buy...we will always have poor and will always have rich...the most unfortunate part is the gap between the two classes is growing larger.
808316
Why doesn't your rich neighbor give you money....just because...??\nWhy doesn't the government take from those according to their ability and give to those according to their need? The answer is because that is communism.
649261
Class formation is a side effect of capatilism that western culture has deemed acceptable.  There will always be some people with a ton of money who don't have to work, and those with little money that cator to the wealthy.  This is acceptable, because it is theoritically possible for anyone to become rich, given the appropriate invention idea, or business model.  It is this possibility that gives the people motivation to create something that will better the lives of as many people possible, and adds value to education.  When there are more products that better the life of the mass populous, the standard of living increases within that country or economic unit.  As long as there are some checks and balances, to prevent the rich from overusing or abusing the poor, like minimum wage/40 hrs a week in the USA, or whatever makes sense in other countries, then cpatilism is the best form of government anywhere.
232332
MLM is the legitimate side of pyramid. There are lucrative companies that pay people to sell their stuff. Then there are the companies set up just to take peoples money (pyramid). The definition of a pyramid (ponzi scheme) is to take the money from people just coming in to pay the people at the top, total rip off.
214968
I think the previous answer sums up so well why class-warfare works.  People want to believe it works.  Most of the wealthy in America aren't from "old money" anymore.  They made their money through hard work and determination.  And so many people who don't (or can't) do that want to blame everyone else.  So they look to blame those that are in a better state than they are.\n\nIt is the same with politicians who play the race card.
84478
Basically a few people get a lot of people working underneath them and receive commission for their work. At the very base level people actually sell goods that a company makes. Everyone above that gets commissions.\n\nThe problem is that the economics only work in favour of those that get in at the very beginning. The rest of the people will struggle to break even. After all, it simply isn't possible for everyone to get rich for nothing...\n\n\nRead this for a detailed explanation:\nhttp://www.commerce.state.ut.us/dcp/education/pyramid.html
676175
Elite democracy doesnt really exist. Elite democracy is really elitist and not democracy.