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America’s Rich Are Completely Losing Touch With Reality — and That’s a Really Bad Sign
By Shaun Bradley Source: AntiMedia The divide between wealthy and working class has grown wider each year since the last financial crisis, but this disconnect is about much more than just money or politics. The super-rich, in particular, have become … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Bunkers, Class Divide, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Global Elites, income gap, Middeclass, Parabiosis, Precariat, Preppers, Social Unrest, Wealth Disparity, Wealthy
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Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population
By Paul Buchheit Source: CommonDreams Last year it was 8 men, then down to 6, and now almost 5. While Americans fixate on Trump, the super-rich are absconding with our wealth, and the plague of inequality continues to grow. An analysis of 2016 data found that the … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Big Agra, Bill Gates, Billionaires, Biotech, Charitable Foundations, economic inequality, Economics, Education, Facebook, financial crisis, Global Elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Meritocracy, Microsoft, NGOs, Oligarchy, Philanthropy, Plutocracy, Taxes, Warren Buffett, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealth Gap
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Are We (Collectively) Depressed?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We need to encourage honesty above optimism. Once we can speak honestly, there is a foundation for optimism. Psychoanalysis teaches that one cause of depression is repressed anger. The rising tide of … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged American exceptionalism, Anger, culture, depression, despair, economic inequality, Economics, Government, income gap, Inequality, psychology, Sociology, The American Dream, Wealth Disparity
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America’s Oligarchs Will Control 70% Of National Wealth By 2021
By Whitney Webb Source: AntiMedia America’s rich just won’t quit getting richer, according to a new study released in mid-June by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm. The study, which seeks to analyze the global wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Boston Consulting Group, Corporate Globalization, Dystopia, Economic Collapse, economic inequality, Economics, financial crisis, Global Elite, income gap, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Disparity
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Deep State, shallow politics, dumb economics
By Frank Scott Source: Intrepid Report In 1965, the USA had 780,000 people in prison, jail, on parole or on probation. By 2010, that population had grown by more than nine times, to 7 million and the prison business was … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Debt, Democracy, economic inequality, Economics, Federal Reserve, Homelessness, income gap, Mass Incarceration, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, war, Wealth Disparity
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Our Hopelessly Dysfunctional Democracy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds When the system is rigged, “democracy” is just another public-relations screen to mask the unsavory reality of Oligarchy. Democracy in America has become a hollow shell. The conventional markers of democracy–elections and … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, History, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime
Tagged Cartels, civil liberties, Clinton Foundation, Corruption, Democracy, economic inequality, empire, Fareed Zakaria, healthcare, imperialism, income gap, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wealth Divide
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The Acquisitive Self, Minus the Self
By Natasha Vargas-Cooper Source: The Baffler Los Angeles isn’t exactly the place that comes to mind when you think of decorous restraint in the display of wealth, even in the dregs of the Great Recession. Here in my hometown, possibly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Humor, media, Philosophy, society, Sociology
Tagged #richkids, 1%, Capital, Class War, Damien Hirst, economic inequality, Economics, income gap, Instagram, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rich Kids of Instagram, RKOI, Selfies, Wealth, Wealth Disparity, Wealthy
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“Why Don’t You Just Get a Better Job” and Other Dumb Shit People Say to Low-Income Earners Stuck in Precarious Work
By Chloe Ann King Source: The Hampton Institute For most of my working life I have been stuck in the hospitality industry which is lowly paid, painfully precarious and poorly regulated. In New Zealand, where I live, hospitality employers mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Aotearoa, Dystopia, Economic Disparity, Economic Insecurity, Economics, Financial Crash, Hillary Clinton, income gap, Labor, Minimum Wage, New Zealand, Poverty, Precariat, Service Worker, Tony Robbins, Unions, Wealth Inequality, Work
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