Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wealth. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Brand Sussex, Karl Marx and why pitchforks matter.

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Harry and Meghan are seceding from the monarchy -- well, except for Harry's inheritance. It's a useful reminder that inherited we...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Just tell me why we should refrain from pointing to the wealth amassed by religious personalities like the late Rev. Berniece Hicks.

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The Main Street "house" owned by the late Rev. Hicks is up for sale. Meanwhile in Indianapolis, I believe Session 5 of th...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls historian Rutger Bregman a "tiny brain...moron," then gets all anatomical.

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First the serious part. Says Rutger Bregman, the hero of Davos: "No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Says Rutger Bregman, the hero of Davos: "No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there."

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And he's absolutely right. Rutger Bregman at was a sensation at Davos , but the Dutch historian was repeating something we all shou...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Every day, too: "NFL Owners Sure Came Off Like Dumbasses When They Met With Players About Protests."

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"Don’t ever get old. Don’t ever get rich." Terry Pegula, owner of the Buffalo Bills, might be interested to know that Charlto...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

"It turns out the rich really are different from you and me. They drive like entitled jerks."

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Without further comment. It's official: The fancier the car, the more likely the driver's a jerk , by Alfred Lubrano ( Philly ...
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Saturday, March 03, 2018

You're adept at making tons and tons of money? That's nice. Now, get off my porch.

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A few weeks back, I began to compile a list of the idols that get extremely short shrift in this contrarian's world. These are the ten...
Monday, August 28, 2017

James Baldwin, the second part: On understanding reparations.

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(James Baldwin, the first part) James Baldwin, speaking at Cambridge University's Union Hall  in 1965 during his debate with Willia...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

A fetishization of wealth vs. capitalism's honorable foot soldiers.

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Has it really been 13 years since the release of Fast Food Nation , the book by Eric Schlosser that examined "the local and global infl...
Saturday, May 03, 2014

Perhaps the definitive word on Donald Sterling, the NBA, the infotainment media, and rich folks liquidating their assets.

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Thanks to RG for this link, which seems tangentially connected with yesterday's posting about Thomas Pinketty. Why I Don’t Care What...
Monday, October 15, 2012

"The top 1 percent cannot evade its share of responsibility for the growing gulf in American society."

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Chickens, Colonel Sanders ... you know. OPINION: The Self-Destruction of the 1 Percent , by Chrystia Freeland ( New York Times ) ... The...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

The 1%: "Their apparent success is a cognitive illusion."

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Required reading for One Southern Indiana's wannabe small-pond oligarchs. The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ev...