Almost as if it's the people at the bottom who create wealth

[kpete]

[Moostache]

1. K&F'nR!!! AMEN!!! (n/t)

[secondwind]

2. Kickety kick!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ohiogal]

3. + 1000!

[UpInArms]

4. As if there was any doubt

... yet, according to the .01%, they made all that money on their very own

[MissMillie]

5. (sarcasm) Socialist! (/sarcasm)

Available on Netflix now:

http://inequalityforall.com/

[AllaN01Bear]

6. this job creator is nothing more than nonsense .

[hangaleft]

51. It's a bullshit excuse used to justify the 1%'s glomming all the wealth

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 Warren’s 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]

60. Senator Warren is not going anywhere

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]

7. Whoda thunk!

[panader0]

8. Abraham Lincoln:

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]

9. Excellent I'm stealing.

[blue-wave]

11. Yes, great quote!!

[panader0]

14. As a bricklayer for 40+ years I saw how

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]

59. One can conclude that much if not most of the rich are overglamourized leeches n/t

[lagomorph777]

21. So ... we really have a Laborist economy, hijacked by ersatz "Capitalists"

[grantcart]

32. Pretty good summary of Marx"a Labor Theory of Value.

[panader0]

40. OMG! Rs would freak out knowing that the best Republican ever

was echoed by Marx. But yeah....

[EarnestPutz]

46. Like ALBliberal just said, this quote is excellent and I have already stolen it. See my...

...signature line for it's new quote. Thank you very much.

[al bupp]

50. In my understanding, this point is more or less the basis of Marxism /nt

[blue-wave]

10. Oh!!

Surely you jest!! It's gonna come trickling down at any moment now!!

[spike jones]

12. pyramid of capitalist system

[link:|

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. Yup. That's it right there! Not rocket science.

[smirkymonkey]

22. +1000

[KSNY]

24. Love this! Thank you.

[PatrickforO]

26. I LOVE IT!!

Of course I've seen this before, but now it has ever greater meaning for us all.

[DarthDem]

27. Unlimited ++++ for this

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]

30. Bingo!

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]

52. Plan B seems to be working just fine so far

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]

13. 100% true - in a normal circumstance.,

[overleft]

16. They are the wealth creators......

Until the the one percenters steal it from us!!!

[geardaddy]

17. Bam!

[ck4829]

18. K&R

[Bluethroughu]

19. Thank you for clearing that up

For those masters of their universe.

We are the makers, they are the takers.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Emergency funds

[PatrickforO]

25. Why, it's corporate SOSH-A-LIZM!! We cannot EVER have no

SOSH-A-LIZM, but the corporations and billionaires certainly can.

[LuvNewcastle]

45. This.

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]

23. Oh, my goodness! Yes!

Almost as if...

[burrowowl]

28. Kick

[Bengus81]

29. Yeah and where REAL tax cuts and relief should happen....

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]

33. Yes, got to give them money at 0% so the unemployed can borrow it

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]

31. Okay, People!

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]

36. And The Market is sacrosanct

because it magically provides jobs and creates wealth for all.

[Newest Reality]

38. Holy, holy, holy!

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]

44. And...

"The kings are our dear fathers, under whose care we live in peace."

[DBoon]

34. The forgotten last chapter of Atlas Shrugged

[Newest Reality]

39. Well,

"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]

53. Open the pod door, Hal - I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that, LOL!

[NCjack]

35. If only the rich would accelerate the construction of factories and resource exploitation

the economy would bounce back -- NOT.

[not fooled]

37. And if only there were fewer burdensome regulations and government interference

in The Market...then it would finally be free to work perfectly!!!

Oops, wait...

[Backseat Driver]

54. Meanwhile, how them "Human Factors" working out for yah now, sis!

Did you remember to include the "mind" of a few snips of very adaptable RNA in those predictive values and algorithms?

[TheFourthMind]

41. Consumer Power!

This crisis certainly exposes our parasites as being void of capital and intelligence and power. Needs to be a World Consumers Union.

[Cary]

43. The economy is 2/3 consumer spending

That is a hard fact.

[Cary]

42. As an economics major at the University of Illinois, 1978 to 1982

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]

47. Wish I could rec this 100 times.

I also wish I could put it up on billboards all over the country.

[PoliWrangler]

48. kick!

[Glaisne]

49. All national wealth comes from just two sources.

Natural resources and labor. Capitalism is the exploitation of both.

[Lisa0825]

58. Bingo.

[applegrove]

55. So true.

[warmfeet]

56. Yep.

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.

[Blue Owl]

57. K&R

[Mike Niendorff]

61. Hell. Yes.

#ExactlyTHIS


MDN

[papa3times]

62. Labor

creates all wealth!

[SunSeeker]

63. Please post the link to the tweet in your OP so I can retweet it.

[wnylib]

64. Reminds me of a painting print

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]

65. Described as s romantic painting

but I don't see it that way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Butler

[IronLionZion]

66. Job creators will just send more jobs to China

Good thing we got all those tax cuts for the rich. It's really helping the economy so much.