A year ago, the pie was reasonably well sliced. Although the slices were unequal, men, women, non white men and women, LGBTQ people got a share.

Economy started deteriorating and we had to get careful with our money. We couldn’t afford to squander it to show a politically correct, well-sliced pie.

Roe and Wade was overturned. Women’s slice of the pie was made smaller. The rest of the population, the men, white and non white, shook their head. For a moment they felt sorry for the women. Under the guise of pro-life, they managed to shrink women’s rights and opportunities in one blow. The men felt bad, but shrugged. Hey, our rights are still intact. Our piece of the pie is still intact. It may even have grown some since we get a bit of the women’s piece. All good.

The LGBTQ rights were curtailed. Uh oh. We the privileged are politically correct, and love the LGBTQ folks. Let’s go for a rally, show our support. Oh well. Time to move on. Sorry you lovely LGBTQ people. We did get a bit of your pie though. We are going to accept it and move on.

Affirmative action was struck down. Oh no. Women, people of color, diversity, sorry. You have been pushed further down. Your piece of pie gets still smaller. We feel bad, really we do. But hey, our piece is getting bigger. White men shrug, accept their new and improved piece of the pie and move on.

But, what’s this? Legacy admissions, expensive, out of reach health care, rising cost of living, high interest rates on loans and guess whose piece of the pie gets smaller? Everyone’s including the middle class to poor white men. As their rights diminished, their piece of the pie got smaller.

So now we are left with the pie in the hands of a few wealthy white men with some slivers handed down to the rest of us. Does this sound like a democratic world? I am not so sure. To me it seems like we are back to where we started, where might was right. Slavery was a way of life.

Economic inequity is a marker of unsustainability. We are in an unsustainable world, now scrambling to take whatever we can from whoever we can. Guess what? With this dog-eat-dog attitude, sooner or later you and I will fall off the bandwagon and miss out on our piece of the pie as well.

Remember, if you turn a blind eye when someone loses their piece of pie, that person could be you. It will be you and it also should be you. Instead of trying to get into the 1% that will always have the biggest slice of the pie, consider supporting a well distributed pie.