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1% Politics and the New Gilded Age
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Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dirty Politics, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged 1%, College Admissions, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Federal Election Commission, Gilded Age, Goldman Sachs, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, political corruption, Ted Cruz, Wage Stagnation, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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Unrealistically Great Expectations
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Our expectations have continued ever higher even as the pie is shrinking.. Let’s see if we can tie together four social dynamics: the elite college admissions scandal, the decline in social mobility, the … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged College, Corporate Crime, Debt, Economics, Education, elites, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Peter Turchin, Precariat, social mobility
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The Great Unraveling Begins: Distraction, Lies, Infighting, Betrayal
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The good news is renewal becomes possible when the entire rotten status quo collapses in a putrid heap. There are two basic pathways to systemic collapse: external shocks or internal decay. The two … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Inequality, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged America, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, empire, geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Ruling Elites, Status Quo, United States
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Why Are American Communities Dying?
By Tom Chatham Source: Project Chesapeake Most Americans who have been around for a while know life is nothing like it used to be. When someone wanted a job one was found with a little bit of searching. Today jobs … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged American Community, Corporations, Economic Collapse, Economics, Family-Owned Business, financial crisis, Government Jobs, local economies, Neoliberalism, recession, Small Business, Small Towns
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Stick to the Plan
Reclaiming central planning from the clutches of corporations By Brendan James Source: The Baffler What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state—Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Amazon, automation, big data, capitalism, central planning, Cybernetics, Economics, elites, Jeff Bezos, Joseph Stalin, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, surveillance state, Technocracy
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Poor Folks
By Peter Van Buren Source: We Meant Well A guy on Facebook I don’t know wrote a version of what has become a kind of set-piece article in today’s America. Here’s a portion: Losing The War of Attrition or How … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged America, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poverty, society
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GIVE AMERICA’S ‘HELICOPTER PARENTS’ A BREAK
Hovering parents don’t need lectures. They need a more equal nation. By Sam Pizzigati Source: OtherWords A good many of us aging baby boomers are having trouble relating to the “helicopter parents” of our modern age — those moms and pops … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged culture, economic inequality, Economics, Families, financial crisis, Income Disparity, Parenting, Social Stratification, society, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap
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Survival of the Richest
All Are Equal, Except Those Who Aren’t By Nomi Prins Source: TomDispatch.com Like a gilded coating that makes the dullest things glitter, today’s thin veneer of political populism covers a grotesque underbelly of growing inequality that’s hiding in plain sight. And … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Collusion, Dystopia, economic inequality, Economic Meltdown, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, George Orwell, Income, income gap, J.P. Morgan, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, Wealth
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