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Karel Brits 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇩It was predicted in 2014. And looking at the way people react to Luigi Mangione, I think people really have woken up. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedHealthcare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LuigiMangione" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LuigiMangione</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrianThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BrianThompson</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pitchforks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pitchforks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plutocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocrats</a> <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming?subtitle=en&geo=fr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocrats_the_pitchforks_are_coming?subtitle=en&geo=fr</a>

JdeB<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TED</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pitchforks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pitchforks</a>I sure hope he's right about those pitchforks. But then again this video is 10 yeaars old. But the talk is about <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UsEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UsEconomy</a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CapitalismFailing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CapitalismFailing</a>. About workers and the middle class being scammed, and that that's BAD FOR BUSINESS. Don't worry... he is still á-rich wealthy bad-guy."Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer" by TED<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8</a> Quote by TED: "Aug 12, 2014 Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in minimum wage could grow the middle class, deliver economic prosperity ... and prevent a revolution."<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USbeware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USbeware</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CapitalismIsFailingYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CapitalismIsFailingYou</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WorkersUnite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkersUnite</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UnionStrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnionStrong</a>

MEActNOWPresident Biden Takes on the current MediaPresident Joe Biden, in an interview with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a>, explains the gap between how people experience the economy and how they perceive it is "because the press isn't the way it used to.""We pick what news we want to hear.

Strypey"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."<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/EricBeinhocker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EricBeinhocker</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a>, 2022<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/forget-trickle-down-what-the-uk-needs-is-middle-out-economics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/forget-trickle-down-what-the-uk-needs-is-middle-out-economics</a>(2/?)<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/JaredBernstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JaredBernstein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TrickleDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrickleDown</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/corporatism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporatism</a>

StrypeyListening to this 2022 back episode of Pitchfork Economics reminded me that for about 5 minutes in the UK, Liz Truss was a thing;"Truss is a deep believer in trickle-down economics – the theory that if you cut taxes for corporations and rich people, it will spur economic growth, which will eventually trickle down into higher wages and rising living standards for the rest.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/EricBeinhocker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EricBeinhocker</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a>, 2022<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/forget-trickle-down-what-the-uk-needs-is-middle-out-economics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/25/forget-trickle-down-what-the-uk-needs-is-middle-out-economics</a>(1/?)

Cory DoctorowThere's six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/JoanWalsh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JoanWalsh</a> and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DonaldCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldCohen</a>'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:<a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht</a>--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:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong</a>1/

Jillian HurleyAre you working overtime but not getting paid for it? Nick Hanauer sheds light on the harsh reality of worker's overtime in America. In this Americonned out-take, he explains how the system has failed to protect workers' rights and how big corporations are taking advantage of it. It's time to demand fair pay for fair work. Join the conversation and let's make a change. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Americonned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americonned</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NickHanauer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NickHanauer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OvertimePay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertimePay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fairpaynow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fairpaynow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Seattle</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndepemdentFilm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndepemdentFilm</a><a href="https://youtu.be/KPlJGyQvLBM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/KPlJGyQvLBM</a>

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