Without touching a penny of their existing wealth, while still leaving $500,000 per year income each, the top 1% in America could raise everyone above the poverty line 3,781 times over.
economics / ethics / health care / healthcare / politics / scam / scams / social justice
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Non-Profit Hospital Exploits A Poverty Program To Make Big Bucks From Satellite Clinics In Rich Neighborhoods
It’s legal, but it definitely *feels* wrong.
economics / essay / society
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Crunching the Numbers: Minimum wage, rent, and childcare
The situation itself is not intentional. Not fixing it is.
marcuse / sociology
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Vignette Two – Why the hell are things still the way they are?
Marcuse’s vision of a Marxist singularity – where work is no longer slavery, where people use technology to free themselves from the drudgery of survival – is technologically […]