"Big City" was a New York Times column written by Gina Bellafante. I use the past tense reluctantly. Apparently, Bellafante's column, initiated in September 2011, is now no longer with us, as of Sunday, August 31, 2025. If you click the link to the column title, right at the beginning of this paragraph, you will be steered to its last iteration (the paywall policies of The New York Times permitting, of course).
In her last column, Bellafante devotes more than a full half-page of The Times to a discussion of income inequality. In the hard copy version of the column, her title reads as follows: "It's The End Of 'Big City.' New York Will Be Fine."
Will it? Will any of us be "fine" if the scourge of income inequality continues to inflame and debilitate this nation (New York City most definitely included)?
I suggest that "income inequality" is an affliction - self-imposed here in the United States of America, still the wealthiest nation in the world - that ranks right up there, right near the top of our "major dangers" list, along with "Global Warming," and the ever-increasing danger of nuclear holocaust.
Bellafante remembers "Occupy Wall Street." I remember that movement, too. It reached right out from New York City to my hometown of Santa Cruz, California. It reached around the world!
It's time, I think, for the citizens of this nation - "we, the people," as those who wrote the Declaration of Independence called us - to "Occupy Our Economy." We need to take control, as happened once before, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt," and make our government start working for us, not the wealthy, not the billionaires. Check the numbers. We've got 'em!
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