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the alternative is not either exactly the way things are (minus the requisite "bad apples") or absolutely flat income for all--the alternative is more an entirely skewed distribution of resources as over against one that is less so, more functional and equitable. read the report, if you haven't. the data in it is surprising, particularly the comparisons between ceo income levels and the average salary of working people in america--you know, wage laborers, regular folk.
imagine the research and development that might take place were this system less entirely geared around shareholder profits detached from any possible linkage of production to a social totality. imagine the jobs that might be created if a significant percentage of the money paid to the upper ends of corporations were instead plowed back into long-term investments.
i don't think this populist movement has thought real hard about any of this. that movement sure hasn't gathered much information, if the only option on the table is A or the complete opposite of A.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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