the abstract, this sounds pretty uncontroversial. But what would this mean in practice? Let's look at the question of distribution of wealth.

If some of us have wealth holdings, for example, of around $190,000, and others of around $5,500, then it is hard to see how even roughly similar kinds of opportunities for education, competition in the marketplace, or success in general could be enjoyed throughout our society. Those are, however, the median holdings of the uppermost and lowest quintiles of our population (as of 2002, sorted by income). So those two very disparate and unequal  groups represent forty percent of our society—the rest of us are in the middle somewhere. Furthermore, this inequality has a clearly racial component: the median net worth of non-Hispanic White households isof Romeo and Juliet is longing. It appears lyrically in "Exit Music" in lines like "sing us a song to keep us warm" and musically in the quiet spaciousness of the first half of the song. In contrast, the second part of the song reinterprets this longing into a source of revolt and confrontation. At the origin of this revolt, there's a desire for something better than the life put in place by the rules and wisdom of others, the longing to be together, and a yearning for warmth instead of the chill that's coming over them. Yorke's delivery evokes despair and hope simultaneously: the story may end in death or it may lead to escape, but either way the revolt is still worth pursuing.

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