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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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The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs
When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent. By Joe Pinsker Source: The Atlantic Over the past five years, the sociologists Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman have … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Labor, Psychology, Racism, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Class, culture, economic inequality, Economics, Education, financial cushion, homophily, income gap, Jobs, Meritocracy, psychology, society, Sociology, sponsorship, Wage Disparity, Work
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
By Clifton Mark Source: Aeon ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bill Gates, Discrimination, Economics, Failure, Gratitude, Labor, Luck, Meritocracy, Neuroscience, Privilege, psychology, Robert Frank, Selfishness, Skill, Success, Work
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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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The Erosion of the Middle Class — Why Americans Are Working Harder and Earning Less
By John Liberty Source: The Mind Unleashed “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged American Dream, Corporations, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, healthcare, Income Disparity, Labor, Middle Class, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Power, recession, Wage Stagnation, Wages, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap, Welfare
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Prices, plutocrats, and corporate concentration
Would less corporate concentration – and a weaker corporate capacity to raise prices – mean less inequality? By Sam Pizzigati Source: Nation of Change Andrew Leigh, a member of the Australian parliament, has a side gig. He just happens to … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Andrew Leigh, antitrust, Cartels, Corporate Concentration, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Income Inequality, Monopolies, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Pay Ratio, Plutocracy, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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What Are We Working For? The Economic System is a Labyrinthine Trap
By Edward Curtin Source: Global Research One also knows from his letters that nothing appeared more sacred to Van Gogh than work.” – John Berger, “Vincent Van Gogh,” Portraits Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, elites, Film, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged activism, Art, At Eternity’s Gate, Consciousness, culture, Economic system, Economics, elites, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rebellion, social control, society, Vincent Van Gogh, Work
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The Recession Will Be Unevenly Distributed
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds Those households, enterprises and organizations that have no debt, a very low cost basis and a highly flexible, adaptable structure will survive and even prosper. The coming recession will be unevenly distributed, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Bureaucracy, Corruption, Debt, Deficit, Economic Collapse, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Ratchet Effect, recession, Tech Industry
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