> Personally I think PG would have been better off to just keep his mouth shut

The intensity of the response to PG's articles stems precisely from the rarity of someone in his position speaking up to defend the capitalists' monopoly. It's rare because it almost always puts an obvious target on that person. He might have well have said, "Let them eat cake."

Regardless of the relative merit of his essays, they've started a wider conversation that's raising the consciousness about the single-most important issue of our society. An issue that only 1 of a half-dozen presidential candidates is willing to talk about...