I think everyone has always understood that the distribution of wealth has been a horrible weight looking over the world, but the Oxfam Study opened my eyes to the idea of home truly massive that gap between the have and the have-nots truly is.  The study finds that by next year the richest one percent will control more than half of the world’s total wealth.  It goes on to describe an even more shocking detail: that the eighty wealthiest people own $1.9 trillion, which is equivalent to the cumulative wealth of the 3.5 billion individuals on the bottom half of the income scale! That is insane! Yet, even though many of these wealthy individuals put their money back into the community to create parks, these actions are not as public oriented as they seem.  In “The Billionaire’s Park,” David Callahan explains how the investment of individuals like Mr. Diller into seemingly public spaces , are in more affluent places and developed in a style that leans more towards the interest of the wealthy.  Essentially this philanthropy is taking away the voice of the public center when it comes to the question of what to do with public space.  This idea is further supported in “OWS: The Part of Wall Street Meets Its Nemesis”, which paints the story of Occupy Wall Street and the end that came to it by the idea that the government decides which space is public and allowed to be occupied.  In a space that is obviously public, it seems that the mass public, those who represent the 99%, are not allowed to take up space in that area because they do not fit the aesthetic off the private sector. So what is it that we, as the 99%, have to do to regain our voices in how to develop public space, a small construct that will hopefully lead to strengthening our voices in other political outlets? We must change the system that equates money with power.  But then, how do we do that?