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marmar

(76,985 posts)
Wed Apr 17, 2013, 10:25 PM Apr 2013

Richard 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.




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Richard Wolff: How Class Works (Original Post) marmar Apr 2013 OP
K&R limpyhobbler Apr 2013 #1
With a vengance is right.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #2
Richard Wolff - The Best! cantbeserious Apr 2013 #3
Those 2 questions posed at the end of the video fasttense Apr 2013 #4
 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
2. With a vengance is right....
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 03:35 AM
Apr 2013

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.

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
4. Those 2 questions posed at the end of the video
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 09:18 AM
Apr 2013

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.

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