income inequality

Lee Camp: New Data Shows US Government Has Been Bought For $14 Billion

No wonder the latest polls show both corporate parties are thoroughly disliked. It’s time to acknowledge that our system has been 100% purchased by the One Percent, and that even the best candidate on their best day is still no better than a Zungenwurst. 
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The Rise Of Wealth Inequality In Our Country Certainly Didn't Start With Trump-- And Not Even Bernie Is Going To Be Able To Reverse It Entirely

Over the weekend, the New Yorker, published an essay by Liaquat Ahamed which asks the question The rich can't get richer forever, can they? You might want to read it in the context of yesterday's post Being A Member Of The Elite May Be A Drag-- But Being A Slave Is Much Worse. When Alexis de Tocqueville visited the U.S.

Jeff Bezos, America's Richest Man, Gets A Bill Named For Him: Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies

Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (BEZOS for short) is the Senate version of a bill Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna introduced to Congress yesterday. It's not popular with plutocrats and oligarchs. One of their newspapers, the Wall Street Journal phrased their coverage as "an unusual public spat between Amazon.com Inc. and Sen. Bernie Sanders over workers’ wages...

Movie Night-- Eat The Rich... Or Feed Them To Pigs

My friend Mike is a film critic and every week he sends me a list of coming releases and invites me to see them. Since I had my stem cell replacement operation, I've had to avoid movie theaters. I hadn't been to one in about 2 years. But one of the films looked interesting this week, Lauren Greenfield's Generation Wealth. I liked another movie she made a few years ago, The Queen of Versailles, which had given me plenty of ammo to use in posts. I imagined Generation Wealth would be as political.