This article isn’t about fountain pens or the economics thereof. It’s a take on the current state of the economy whereby the “corporate elite” steer wealth into their own pockets, and a reference to the Woody Guthrie lyric, “Some’ll rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.”
http://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2015-06-05/the-hightower-report/