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Perhaps as important as the contract wins was how they were won. Breaking with decades of the union’s history of concessions and corruption, recently elected president Shawn Fain and other UAW leaders made ambitious demands and clearly communicated them to members and to the public. And the union has not shied away from the language of class…
This ends in two ways… the rich acquiesce to a tax regime that supports host they parasitize or guillotines. Canada’s Gilded Age is terrible for workers and bad for the economy. As the rich gain more power and entrench themselves further, the economy becomes less productive, and workers lose leverage to secure fair pay, better…
This is how you fight greed-flation Pepsi products are being removed from Carrefour’s shelves in Europe over “unacceptable price increases,” including Doritos and Quaker cereals as well as the company’s famed cola.
Now think about what the data’s telling us. Macro indicators, micro indicators—things are just fine. Well-being—things are crushing, terrible, people are in despair and ruin. This is the Great Divergence in action. How can this be, though? How can these statistics all disagree? Remember, well-being data was invented because GDP and its ilk faced a…
From the “just give poor people money” file… But the biggest takeaway from the study was not about how much money they spent on addictive substances. It was that people who received the $750 were more likely to get off the streets. “The proportion of people who reported spending time unsheltered in the past month…
“A left without class is just a liberal pressure group”
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