To My Fellow Plutocrats: You Can Cure Trumpism
Pay your workers a decent wage and maybe you can stave off the pitchforks that are still coming for us.
By NICK HANAUER July 18, 2017
The real threat to our republic is an alarming breakdown in social cohesion, and the cause of this breakdown is obvious: radical, rising economic inequality, and the anger and anxiety it engenders. The truth is that over the span of decades, American lawmakers (at the behest of economic elites like us!) have enacted policies that have depressed wages, stoked economic insecurity and exacerbated cultural angst and social dislocation. At the same time, a tiny minority of mostly urban elite (again, us!) have benefitted obscenely from our growing economic, political and legal power.
It's a very, very long article, lots of beautiful words, believe me. Worth the read. Link HERE.
okay, I'll give it a shot
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