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Tag Archives: economic inequality
Taxpayers Are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Salaries
Billions in taxpayer funds go to CEOs who pay their workers peanuts. We can change that. By Sam Pizzigati Source: Other Words Politicians often gab about the “private sector” and the “public sector,” as if these two categories of economic … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged CEO Pay, Corporate Welfare, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Government Contractors, Income Disparity, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Portland, Wealth Gap
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Why do corporate boards so overpay US CEOs?
By Sam Pizzigati Source: Nation of Change Back in 1999, near the dizzying height of the dot-com boom, no executive in Corporate America personified the soaring pay packages of America’s CEOs more than Jack Welch, the chief exec at General … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Social Control, society
Tagged 1%, CEO Pay, Corporate CEOs, Corporate Elites, corporatocracy, economic inequality, Economic Policy Institute, Economics, Executive Paychecks, financial crisis, Free Market, General Electric, Income Disparity, Jack Welch, MBAs, Rigged Game, Wealth Gap
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National (In)Security In the United States of Inequality
By Rajan Menon Source: Unz Review So effectively has the Beltway establishment captured the concept of national security that, for most of us, it automatically conjures up images of terrorist groups, cyber warriors, or “rogue states.” To ward off such … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, military spending, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars, Work
Tagged American Society, Child Poverty, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Health Insurance, healthcare, Homelessness, Housing Crisis, military spending, National Security State, Poverty, unemployment, Working Poor
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American Society Would Collapse If It Weren’t for These 8 Myths
By Lee Camp Source: TruthDig Our society should’ve collapsed by now. You know that, right? No society should function with this level of inequality (with the possible exception of one of those prison planets in a “Star Wars” movie). Sixty-three … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, Election Fraud, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Law, media, Media Literacy, news, police state, propaganda, Social Control, society, Work
Tagged american myths, Big Banks, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Consumerism, corporate media, Democracy, economic inequality, Electoral System, elites, independent judiciary, Jobs, judiciary, Labor, Lee Camp, media, Oligarchy, police, police state, us democracy, Work
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Eternity, nature, society and the absurd fantasies of the rich
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience Professor and author Douglas Rushkoff recently wrote about a group of wealthy individuals who paid him to answer questions about how to manage their lives after what they believe will be the collapse of society. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged 1%, Collapse, Community, culture, Douglas Rushkoff, Dystopia, economic inequality, elites, Philosophy, Relationships, Security, Societal Collapse, society, Wealth
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Jeff Bezos’ Paper Tells You Not to Worry About Those Billionaires
By Dean Baker Source: FAIR Just when you thought economic commentary in the Washington Post couldn’t get any more insipid, Roger Lowenstein proves otherwise. In a business section “perspective” (7/20/18), he tells readers: But what if inequality is the wrong metric. Herewith … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Amazon, Billionaires, capitalism, Corporate Elites, economic inequality, Economics, Federal Reserve, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, washington post, Wealth
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This Viral ‘Feel-Good’ Story Is Actually an Indictment of American Labor Hell
By Luke O’Neil Source: Observer In what’s quickly become the feel-good story of the week, a young Alabama man named Walter Carr is being lauded across the country for his perseverance and indomitable spirit. It’s the type of story that … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, corporate news, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bellhops, Business, Cameron Doody, corporate media, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Gig Economy, Internet Culture, Jenny Lamey, Labor, Luke Marklin, media, Media Literacy, news, Precariat, propaganda, Twitter, Walter Carr, Work
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25 Families Own $1.1 Trillion Between Them as the Global Wealth Inequality Gap Grows
Using data from their list Forbes has produced a list of the top 25 richest families in the world. Together they are worth over $1.1 trillion, or the entire GDP of Indonesia. By Rosa Tressell and Dr. Leon Tressell Source: SouthFront Once … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged 1%, Billionaires, Bloomberg, Cargill, Dictators, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, Frobes, Jeff Bezos, Koch Brothers, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Power, Roche, Rockefellers, Rothchilds, Waltons, Wealth, Wealth Concentration
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