Pocket Archive: Capitalism & Economic Critique

"Well, I'm conservative, but I'm not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I'm pro-choice! I'm pro-same-sex-marriage! I'm not a racist! I just want lower taxes, and smaller government, and less government regulation of business. I'm fiscally conservative, and socially...

Anti-monopoly laws are powerless to stop the meme king pyramid scheme corporate socialist

Experts say lobbying and business interests influenced the 2015 US dietary guidelines for Americans

The Decline of Poverty Your opinions about global inequality really depend on where you’re standing If you’re over the age of 18, you probably grew up with the story of how the world is divided …

Popular revulsion for the ruling elite is nearly universal. Are we going to see an uprising?

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Google Is a Terrorist Organization Youtube is a threat to national security Okay, I’ll admit it. I went on Youtube and watched a Ben Shapiro video. Just one. I know. Stupid me. It was about how AOC …

Responding to worried questions raised by many about the ongoing banking crisis that started in the US with the bankruptcy of the Silicon Valley Bank

Capitalism as an economic system requires constant growth, constant profit, and endless extraction in order to achieve profit.

Investigating why the world is in crisis.

America’s real democracy crisis is this: corporations use a system of legalized bribery to buy public policy, which prevents popular progressive policies from passing and erodes Americans’ faith in their government.

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A nonjudgmental conversation may be one of the best ways to reduce prejudice against transgender people.

“…everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.” —Arthur Young; 1771

Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.

A new book explores whether capitalism can be saved from itself.

Are taxpayers rewarding bad behavior?

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The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn't being "reverse distributed" every year away from the working class.

It would be nice if people in America were to know what the meaning of the term “capitalism” really is. Many Americans have no real clue what the word means. I have read that the term w…

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Exploiting people, exploiting land, and keeping its ugly side secret. Its historical effects are all too recognisable in the Pandora papers now, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Charitable giving among the super-rich has one goal, and it isn't to change the world – it's to keep it exactly the way it is.