silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoThe $79 Trillion Heist | We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.prospect.orgexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up1240
arrow-up1240external-linkThe $79 Trillion Heist | We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.prospect.orgsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up47·9 months agoIt’s not new, but the spending by the richest has gotten to be a much much larger fraction of the total in recent years This lets them alter the rules of society so that things aren’t just a little tilted in their favor, but are enormously so.
minus-squareCobblerScholar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·9 months agoIf they weren’t scared those notoriously stingy bastards wouldn’t have spent all that cash trying to maintain their power
It’s not new, but the spending by the richest has gotten to be a much much larger fraction of the total in recent years
This lets them alter the rules of society so that things aren’t just a little tilted in their favor, but are enormously so.
If they weren’t scared those notoriously stingy bastards wouldn’t have spent all that cash trying to maintain their power