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(9,895 posts)secondwind
(16,903 posts)Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)... yet, according to the .01%, they made all that money on their very own
MissMillie
(38,560 posts)Available on Netflix now:
http://inequalityforall.com/
AllaN01Bear
(18,246 posts)hangaleft
(649 posts)Just like trickle down is a bullshit excuse to justify tax cuts for the rich.
P.S. The blurb in the OP is the reason I strongly supported Elizabeth Warrens candidacy and am so despondent about the missed opportunity of electing a president who made going to war over that kind of crap the cornerstone of her campaign.
Tweedy
(628 posts)From the senate, she and others who agree with her, will continue to persist.
President Joe Biden will neither ignore her, nor the millions of other voices calling for sanity.
ancianita
(36,066 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
ALBliberal
(2,342 posts)blue-wave
(4,356 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)those who work the hardest get paid the least.
I should have been born into a rich family and would never have had to
do anything.....nah-- I actually enjoyed my work, I am probably healthier
because of it.
DSandra
(999 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)was echoed by Marx. But yeah....
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)...signature line for it's new quote. Thank you very much.
al bupp
(2,179 posts)Surely you jest!! It's gonna come trickling down at any moment now!!
spike jones
(1,680 posts)[link:|
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)KSNY
(315 posts)PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)Of course I've seen this before, but now it has ever greater meaning for us all.
DarthDem
(5,255 posts)I've never seen that before; thanks. Not much has changed since 1911. Well, things actually did change for a while. But corporations and their enthusiastic backers made sure we got right back "on track," now 109 years later.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Without the base of the pyramid, it doesn't even go up to the peak. It has to be built on a foundation.
Pull that out and boom, it collapses. Let's watch.
Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)A tiny piece of RNA suddenly has rulers (malignant narcissists), foolers (corrupt ass-kissers), and uniformed order followers (medaled TBI'd officers of the line) worried they might actually have to do a few chores themselves to fix their portfolios or, curses, share it to get some of it back; change their complicated snake-oil tunes, scripts, and talking points, and maybe even metaphorically shoot their beloved granny in front of the grandkids that they are trying to protect from all the chaos and trauma while trying to avoid the risk of driving the "bring out your dead" carts. I'm the ghost of promises broken and barely even on the chart. Many will be left with some version of an adjustment disorder that will haunt their sleep and tire their brains. It won't last forever, but then neither will this lesson save any of them from exposure/infection nor will their hateful "cult" worship... For a moment in time, I'm as expensive as I can be on that lower level of existence!
Firestorm49
(4,035 posts)overleft
(356 posts)Until the the one percenters steal it from us!!!
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,172 posts)For those masters of their universe.
We are the makers, they are the takers.
keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)SOSH-A-LIZM, but the corporations and billionaires certainly can.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)I read today that most businesses only have enough capital to support themselves for about 27 days, hence, the bill Republican Senators are trying to pass right now. They want to give nearly a trillion away to businesses, but they hold up a bill to provide a little bit of relief to ordinary people. They're really pushing things to the limit here, and I think people are about to get fed up.
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)Almost as if...
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Trumps latest BS Fed interest cut so someone can get a new Yacht and a hell of a rate does ZIP for the economy.
Meanwhile Bank Credit cards still running 15/18/25%.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)There wasn't enough "liquidity" in the financial markets, so the Mango Mushhead had to be sure they had plenty on hand to make a killing from the working class that "do all the living and dying" to keep the economy afloat.
Keeping mortgage rates down don't help a family that doesn't have a steady income.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Don't get a all socialist and We The People now as if you just woke up from a capitalist nightmare and see it like it is!!!!
I mean, get with the official program about the meritocracy, hard work, boot straps, (they are out of them right now) etc. Nobody gets to leave The Matrix.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)because it magically provides jobs and creates wealth for all.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The Golden Calf is our idol. All bow and pause for worship. And now, repeat: Consume mass quantities. AMEN!
Well, it won't be sustainable. Nature has other plans.
That bull on Wall St. seems to be a double entendre as far as what it symbolizes.
ChazInAz
(2,569 posts)"The kings are our dear fathers, under whose care we live in peace."
DBoon
(22,366 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)"They" are working hard on the army of robots. Gotta' hand it to "them". I use quotes more often on missing referents in order to be clear about that.
The question is, what happens to the "humanoid resources" when that comes to pass? That is not a paranoid question, it is really something that needs to be addressed now as we nosedive deep into a 4th Industrial Revolution, after the major Recession for them, Depression for us, that is.
It looks like truck drivers are among the first in line. Playing it down is not working for me because the proposed "new jobs" are not going to mimic the past revolutions in innovation that we have seen. That's just placating people for now.
Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)the economy would bounce back -- NOT.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)in The Market...then it would finally be free to work perfectly!!!
Oops, wait...
Backseat Driver
(4,393 posts)Did you remember to include the "mind" of a few snips of very adaptable RNA in those predictive values and algorithms?
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)This crisis certainly exposes our parasites as being void of capital and intelligence and power. Needs to be a World Consumers Union.
Cary
(11,746 posts)That is a hard fact.
Cary
(11,746 posts)I was taught real economic theory.
And it was my introduction to the depth and breadth of "conservative" sophistry.
The economy, literally, is Consumer Spending + Investment + Government Spending + Exports - Imports. I don't see any "makers and takers" in that equation. Their "makers" will "make" at the point of equilibrium, where marginal profit equals zero. Businesses are price takers, not price makers.
Oddly when I confront University of Chicago economics majors they are wholly unable to engage me in classical economics, supply and demand.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)I also wish I could put it up on billboards all over the country.
PoliWrangler
(139 posts)Glaisne
(515 posts)Natural resources and labor. Capitalism is the exploitation of both.
applegrove
(118,677 posts)We create it, and they take it away. If only there were some type of system, some mechanism, people could use to level the playing field.
Vote November 3rd, your life and your livelihood depend on it.
Mike Niendorff
(3,462 posts)#ExactlyTHIS
MDN
creates all wealth!
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)wnylib
(21,484 posts)I saw once. A well-dressed couple dancing on the beach in the rain while another couple, dressed as servants, stands by holding up umbrellas. Called "The Singing Butler."
wnylib
(21,484 posts)but I don't see it that way.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Butler
IronLionZion
(45,450 posts)Good thing we got all those tax cuts for the rich. It's really helping the economy so much.