This is another piece that I've had pushed off to the side for at least a year, as I considered it (as well as the previous piece in the series) as ultimately failed experiments.

Obviously, the concept (and name) of 'Sugarcandy Mountain' is inspired by Orwell's book 'Animal Farm', and further inspiration comes from a traditional Cowboy song written by Harry McClintock in 1895, with the title: "Big Rock Candy Mountain".
Most people are familiar with the cleaned-up version that was turned into a Children's song by Burl Ives in the fifties, but the original is actually quite racy and skeezy, even by today's standards.

All that said, the main inspiration for all of this was my anger and disgust at how all the bankers not only got away with brazenly looting (and crashing) the economy in 2008, but were openly defiant and often smug about it. Very much the epitome of the FYIGM attitude.
It was also the point, where I honestly felt that all the posturing and camouflage was finally shed from the agenda that some of our "betters" (i.e. the super-rich), have that the middle-class is an artificial construct that just needs to disappear once and for all, and that we need to go back to the 'natural order' of things, where there are only the fabulously wealthy and the wretchedly poor, and almost nothing in between.