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It was predicted in 2014. And looking at the way people react to Luigi Mangione, I think people really have woken up. #UnitedHealthcare #LuigiMangione #BrianThompson #NickHanauer #pitchforks #plutocrats
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"Jared Bernstein ... summarised the evidence against trickle-down economics in a presentation to the joint economic committee of Congress several years ago.
... if the trickle-down theory was correct, we would expect to see that, when tax rates go down, growth goes up and vice versa. But using data stretching from 1947 to 2015, Bernstein showed in no case was that true."
#EricBeinhocker, #NickHanauer, 2022
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There's six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial. #NickHanauer, #JoanWalsh and #DonaldCohen's new book *Corporate Bullsh*t: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America* provides an essential taxonomy of this dirty six:
https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
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"For the last 20 years we've seen 75% of industries grow more concentrated. We've seen consumer options dwindle in certain areas. We've seen options for workers in many areas dwindle.
All of that means higher prices, and it means lower wages for workers as well. One study found that the combination... was costing the typical [US] family $5000 a year."
#BharatRamamurti, 2023
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/bidenomics-with-bharat-ramamurti/
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"For the last 20 years we've seen 75% of industries grow more concentrated. We've seen consumer options dwindle in certain areas. We've seen options for workers in many areas dwindle.
All of that means higher prices, and it means lower wages for workers as well. One study found that the combination... was costing the typical [US] family $5000 a year."
#BharatRamamurti, 2023
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/bidenomics-with-bharat-ramamurti/
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"For the last 20 years we've seen 75% of industries grow more concentrated. We've seen consumer options dwindle in certain areas. We've seen options for workers in many areas dwindle.
All of that means higher prices, and it means lower wages for workers as well. One study found that the combination... was costing the typical [US] family $5000 a year."
#BharatRamamurti, 2023
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/bidenomics-with-bharat-ramamurti/
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"For the last 20 years we've seen 75% of industries grow more concentrated. We've seen consumer options dwindle in certain areas. We've seen options for workers in many areas dwindle.
All of that means higher prices, and it means lower wages for workers as well. One study found that the combination... was costing the typical [US] family $5000 a year."
#BharatRamamurti, 2023
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/bidenomics-with-bharat-ramamurti/
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Nick Hanauer on Biden’s Middle Out economic policies.
“Biden has accomplished more to support working and middle-class Americans in his first two years in office than the last six presidents combined.”
“Because when the middle class does well, the poor have a ladder up and the wealthy still do very well. We all do well.”
https://prospect.org/economy/2023-02-09-biden-middle-out-agenda/
#economics #middleout #potus #biden #pitchforkeconomics #nickhanauer