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Related: About this forumRichard Wolff: How Class Works
Uploaded on Dec 8, 2011
Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all about and applies that understanding to the foreclosure crisis of 2007--2011. He argues that class concerns the "way our society splits up the output (and) leaves those who get the profits in the position of deciding and figuring out what to do with them... We all live with the results of what a really tiny minority in our society decides to do with the profits everybody produces." As you watch and listen, consider what we know from research about disease and illness patterns among groups with lower income, more stress, and less control of their lives. Consider how investment decisions in neighborhoods, over transportation, school facilities, parks, location of grocery stores, quality of affordable housing, etc. influenced by powerful interests, affect the quality of life for large segments of the population.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)I dig this kind of cartoon.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)One thing America does is go overboard.
Once it sinks in that it isn't the rich that makes America great and people realize they have been getting screwed there is going to be a major shift in society. The Right Wing is already in deep trouble for it's other antics and once people reject their worship of the wealthy then it's all over for them.
All their talking points will cause people to just want to kick their ass. Stuff like "I never worked for a poor man",...etc.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
fasttense
(17,301 posts)are interesting.
I've noticed in our very rural are with an official unemployment rate of over 10%, that more and more people have really bad teeth. Many a person in their 20s and 30s have rotting teeth and big spaces where their teeth have fallen out.