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Category Archives: Labor
The Number Of Billionaires In America Has Absolutely Exploded During The Pandemic
By Michael Snyder Source: Investment Watch Blog For the wealthy and the ultra-wealthy, happy days are here again. Even though we have just been through one of the most difficult 12 months in our history, the number of billionaires has increased … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Billionaires, Covid-19, Economic Collapse, economic depression, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, food prices, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, unemployment, wall street, Wealth Gap, Wealthy Class
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Jeff Bezos Embodies the Cruel Autocracy of Neoliberal Capitalism
Amazon CEO and richest-man-in-the-world Jeff Bezos wants you to work as much as he does—for one millionth of the pay By Branko Marcetic Source: In These Times “Is Jeff Bezos a horrible boss and is that good?” That was the question … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Work
Tagged Amazon.com, Autocracy, Blue Origin, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, environment, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Kshama Sawant, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, washington post, Work
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What’s Changed and What Hasn’t in a Tumultuous Year
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Inequality is America’s Monster Id, and we’re continuing to fuel its future rampage daily. What’s changed and what hasn’t in the past year? What hasn’t changed is easy: 1. Wealth / income inequality … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged central banks, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Over-speculation, tourism, Wage Stagnation, Wealth
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Is the American Dream Still Alive? (Infographic)
Source: Strategic Culture Foundation The post-WWII United States was at the peak of its soft power. One of its pillars was the American Dream. Every American could expect that his children would be better off – better off in every … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged American Dream, compensation, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Health, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Productivity, society, Wage Gap, Wage Stagnation
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What “Normal” Are We Returning To? The Depression Nobody Dares Acknowledge
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Perhaps we need an honest national dialog about declining expectations, rising inequality, social depression and the failure of the status quo. Even as the chirpy happy-talk of a return to normal floods the airwaves, … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged American exceptionalism, Anger, Corporate Welfare, culture, despair, downward mobility, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Inequality, Middle Class, Oligarchy, psychology, recession, social defeat, society, Sociology, systemic injustice, unemployment, Wealth Disparity
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The Top 10% Is Doing Just Fine, The Middle Class Is Dying on the Vine
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Please study these charts as a means of understanding the inevitability of economic stagnation and a revolt of the decapitalized middle class. I’ve been covering the decline of America’s middle class for … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged capitalism, decapitalization, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, elites, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Financialization, Labor, middleclass, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Productivity
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On Capitalism and the Machine
By Megan Sherman Source: Global Research In 1935, reflecting on the creed of productivity which prevailed in modern technological societies, Bertrand Russell, philosopher, pacifist and devout humanist wrote that: “I think that there is far too much work done in the world, … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, imperialism, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology, Work
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, capitalism, Dystopia, Economics, Fordism, Henry Ford, Labor, Philosophy, Stephen Hawking, Technocracy, technology, Work
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Saturday Matinee: Sorry We Missed You
“Sorry We Missed You”: Ken Loach Exposes the Holes in the Gig Economy By Chuck Collins Source: CounterPunch Director Ken Loach has done it again. “Sorry We Missed You” is a family drama infused with a searing look at life … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Economics, Film, Labor, Saturday Matinee, society, Video, Work
Tagged British Cinema, Gig Economy, Ken Loach, Sorry We Missed You
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