Category Archives: economic inequality

A Response to The One Percent

Posted on November 1, 2025 by greg

According to a Congressional Budget Office report, you need at least $787,712 in income per year to make the top 1%, but this varies by where you live. As of 2023, the top 1% of American households owned 30.0% of … Continue reading →

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A Call for Change, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Posted on July 1, 2025 by greg

Mark Twain noted: Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason. Continue reading →

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Response to the Failure of Trickle-Down Economics

Posted on June 1, 2025 by greg

Critics argue that tax cuts for the wealthy may not be reinvested in ways that benefit the broader economy, and may instead be used for other purposes. Continue reading →

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Responding to the Cult of Fear in Politics

Posted on May 1, 2025 by greg

A cult is a group of people who organize around a strong authority figure. Cults, like many other groups, attempt to expand their influence for the purposes of power or money. No one joins a cult; they are recruited by … Continue reading →

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Project 2025: a Blueprint for Corporate Dystopia

Posted on April 15, 2025 by greg

Corporate dystopia is a future or alternate history where corporate power has lead to an oppressive society, a society that fails to meet at least some peoples needs, or otherwise fits the typical definitions of a dystopia. Continue reading →

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 When Symbolic Violence Turns into Symbolic Warfare

Posted on February 15, 2025 by greg

The title, The Fountainhead, refers to the source of human progress which, according to Rand, is ego – act on the virtue of rational self-interest. By 2018 Ayn Rand and her novels had become widespread cultural reference points among wealthy … Continue reading →

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How Disinformation Supports Post-truth and Authoritarianism

Posted on December 15, 2024 by greg

Postmodernism is defined as the reaction to assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. Postmodernism says that there is no real truth. It says that knowledge is always made or invented and not discovered. Postmodernism is based … Continue reading →

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The Plutocracy and Big Money: the Cost of Money in Politics

Posted on December 1, 2024 by greg

Billionaires do not hesitate to present their ideology as interpretation of truth. Hedge fund billionaire Bob Mercer and his family spent millions in GAI (Government Accountability Institute), Breitbart and Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 campaign to get Trump elected. Hillary … Continue reading →

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Role of Social Factors and the Limits of Medical Care

Posted on August 15, 2024 by greg

How does today’s economic governance affect population health? Thomas Piketty observes capitalism in the 21st century has concentrated so much wealth in the hands of so few, while the millions left behind are now angry at the system. The middle-class … Continue reading →

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Rousseau and Freedom: A Renewed Social Contract

Posted on August 1, 2024 by greg

A new social contract is not about higher taxes, more redistribution, and a bigger welfare state. It is about fundamentally reordering and equalizing how opportunity and security are distributed across society. Continue reading →

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