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mother earth

(6,002 posts) Mon Sep 28, 2015, 03:40 PM Sep 2015

Saving Capitalism, For the Many, Not the Few, Robert Reich [View all]

Robert Reich gives us the lowdown in a few short minutes on the issue of our time. The many are screwed because the game is rigged for the few wealthiest & it's business as usual, pretending the "free" market dictates...and why it just ain't so. Like we've heard time & time again, the game is rigged. So how do we fix that?

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Saving Capitalism, For the Many, Not the Few, Robert Reich [View all] mother earth Sep 2015 OP

Capitalism always concentrates wealth into the fewest hands Warpy Sep 2015 #1

Bread and circus. Keep the hoi polloi entertained and minimally fed. merrily Sep 2015 #2

For Later reading tnlurker Sep 2015 #3

I love Reich, but I think he's missing it here. What he says is true, but... Gregorian Sep 2015 #4

Your line of thinking is much more in line with Richard D. Wolff's (DemocracyatWork.info), mother earth Sep 2015 #5

You're right on the money. Gregorian Sep 2015 #6