Its just another flawed analogy. Here's what the original was probably trying to portray: Left - Lower Classes (one broke Oreo, sparingly nibbling at the fragments) Center - Middle Classes (does not consume his sole Oreo) Right - First Class (pile of Oreos, continuously consuming from his plentiful pile) The Top Classes prod the Middle Classes to scold the lower classes for their irresponsible consumption. When that happens, the Top Classes hoodwinks the sole Oreo from the Middle Class. Finding his sole Oreo missing, the Middle Classes are outraged and confronts the Top Classes. The Top Classes redirects their anger onto the lower Classes.
^ in walks the government and hands out free Oreos which they have managed to materialise out of thin air.
Wealth transfer. The dissapearing middle class is fooled by propaganda into thinking their steadily eroding wealth is being transfered to the poor when in fact wealth is being transferred to the very small minority of the world's extremely wealthy.
One of the commercial biscuit companies used to make a nice Breton biscuit. My wife and I would often sit of an afternoon sipping on some late harvest sticky whilst eating white castello and bretons. Occasionally our thoughts would turn to the poor, but fortunately one of us would retain enough commonsense to slap the other brutally about the face. They don't make Bretons anymore, but they still make the poor.
