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Bernie Sanders Calls Jeff Bezos’ Wealth ‘Morally Obscene’ As Amazon CEO Steps Down
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) described Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' wealth as "obscene" and called for taxes on billionaires as Bezos left his role as company CEO. Sanders took to Twitter on Monday to highlight how much Bezos earns and contrasted it with t ...[Read more]
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Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk—they’re rich kids with safety nets
We’re in an era of the cult of the entrepreneur. We analyze the Tory Burches and Evan Spiegels of the world looking for a magic formula or set of personality traits that lead to success. Entrepreneurship is on the rise, and more students coming out of b ...[Read more]
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Report reveals how big corporations rigged rules to boost pandemic pay of CEOs as workers suffered
Dozens of the largest low-wage employers in the United States manipulated their own rules during the coronavirus pandemic to hand wealthy CEOs substantial raises while their vulnerable frontline workers struggled to get by with inadequate paychecks, meage ...[Read more]
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Bill Gates says no to sharing vaccine formulas with global poor to end pandemic
Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men and most powerful philanthropists, was the target of criticism from social justice campaigners on Sunday after arguing that lifting patent protections on COVID-19 vaccine technology and sharing recipes with the w ...[Read more]
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The Failure Of The Globalist Fantasy
In this super-global era, living standards for most working people in the West have stagnated and most gains have gone to the top. Establishment politicians have few answers except to blame the people themselves for having insufficient skills. People not ...[Read more]
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Think our governments can no longer control capitalism?
Seen in the simplest terms, the story of political economy over the past four decades is a class war between capital and labour, which capital has won hands down. The battlefield is littered with evidence of labour’s defeat: nugatory pay awards, precari ...[Read more]
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The Elites Won’t Save Us: Chris Hedges
The four-decade-long assault on our democratic institutions by corporations has left them weak and largely dysfunctional. These institutions, which surrendered their efficacy and credibility to serve corporate interests, should have been our firewall. Ins ...[Read more]
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