On #LaborDay, I think of a massage therapist I wrote of who made $90 in some two-week pay periods and $700 in others, who struggled to make an adult life with that uncertainty, because of an issue afflicting millions: companies that jerk around workers’ hours to keep up profits.
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Before anyone richsplains to you that we can all rise together, win-win-win, understand her situation. She is kept in poverty so that the massages are kept cheap or (more likely) so that wage bills are kept low and profits high, and investors kept happy. Her loss is others’ win.
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If we can move into the autumn with one idea in mind, let it be this: all is not a win-win, no matter how often we are told so; and what it will take to make America work again for most people will cost elites something. No such thing as free social reform.
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Trickle-down economics was the lie of the 1980s. Trickle-down social change is the lie of our time. Nothing worth having trickles down from above.pic.twitter.com/3lyekVwMzP
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We can only hope all people see the same way you do
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Sir - the bottom quintle net receives from the government (taxes paid less transfers) Govt isn't on their back. All that transfer is paid for by the top quintle. And does your friend work for a larger corporate or a small business bc philanthropists don't run small businesspic.twitter.com/C1gb6PoqrR
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What Anand preaches is helplessness and victimhood and scapegoating the most successful It's never 'should I improve my skills or is the slightly richer small business owner at fault not the uber rich It's never 'how lucky am I to be born here and not Greece, it's victimhood
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Just listened to your
@ezraklein podcast. Fascinating and challenging. Thanks for making a tricky argument worth making. Happy to amplify.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Have you considered using a term other than "winners"? I think it is problematic in the context you're using and a different word would serve your point better.
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My
#LaborDay hope is that the elites stop lecturing us how to best live our lives, as the elites take advantage of and make fun of the non-elites daily.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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$17.30 for your book? Are you trying to be a Winner?
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Tolstoy said:...every man of the present day knows that all men have an equal right to life and the good things of life, and that one set of people are no better nor worse than another, that all are equal. Everyone knows this, beyond doubt; everyone feels it in his whole being.
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he takes part in maintaining this distinction which his conscience condemns.
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In Ishiguro’s
#RemainsofTheDay Mr. Stevens happily devotes lifetime of service to privileged master who turns out to be pondscum#nazi Heroine housekeeper Miss Kenton chooses family ties and children.#winners taking what they can.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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