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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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Capitalism, Empire, and the Infernal Gloom Machine
By Jason Holland Source: Dissident Voice Depression is built into this machine and the evidence is plastered on the morose faces of people caught in the clutches of its business as usual activities. Depression is found in the insurmountable debts we … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, media, police state, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged capitalism, corporate media, culture, Debt, depression, Ecology, Economics, empire, environment, Housing Crisis, imperialism, Oligarchy, 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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Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens are Used to Steal Your Money
By Robert J. Burrowes Tax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, History, Inequality, Neocons, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bribery, central banks, CIA, contract kickbacks, Corruption, Economics, elites, failure to disclose conflicts of interest, fraudulent invoicing, illicit political donations, insider trading, London, Manhattan, Market Rigging, Money Laundering, Neocons, Offshore Banks, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocrats, psychology, Sociology, State Crime, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens, The Vatican, trade mispricing, weapons trading, World War II
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Bust the Trust: Now is the Time to Break Up Amazon
By Andy Laties with additional reporting by Sander Hicks Source: The New York Megaphone Standing at the cash register at an Upper West Side independent bookstore I used to run, I once noted the frequent passage of cars painted all … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, CIA, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, media, Neoliberalism, news, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Amazon, antitrust, Bookstores, CIA, corporate media, DC lobbyists, Defense Contractors, Economics, HQ2, ICE, JEDI, Jeff Bezos, Monopoly, NSA, Seattle, Small Business, spies
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