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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne Guy Totally Predicted What Today's Big Problem Would Be—94 Years Ago!
He nailed it!!Found on Imm.io/MoveOn.org
Fla Dem
(23,723 posts)"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."
But we never listen or learn.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)fortune lies a great crime"
From the French: "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait" (Literally, 'The secret to large fortunes with no discernible cause is some forgotten crime, because it was committed legally."
TBF
(32,084 posts)PDittie
(8,322 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)siligut
(12,272 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)The narrative, the media steps in to keep it going.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Maybe e-books can change that. Otherwise the for-profit book publishing business model makes money an important element in the decision-making process. Which books appear in a book store is a money decision.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Last edited Sat Apr 28, 2012, 01:01 PM - Edit history (1)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11241639Fox media domination there and hate radio take up the slack brainwashing when the people leave school. It's half the reason they got away with this, the other half is political indoctrination in the schools, increasingly being privatized, corporate-run with corporate methodology and also religious ones. There are exceptions, teachers bringing progressive books for students to view, since the history is not going to be taught now. A teacher in Tucson got an award from a Zinn group for expanding cirriculum.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)because we are so terribly ignorant of our history.
K&R
marshall gaines
(347 posts)this is history. and told the truth
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Playinghardball
Sad we haven't learning it yet - and made it so, that no one can rob others - and have the power to legalize it..
Diclotican
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)... but a description of the then current conditions.
It's too bad so little has changed.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)From 1915 n we started to see the end of twelve hour work day, without paid holidays, health insurance benefits, retirement programs, end of child labor, et al.
All due to the tremendous amount of people who put their lives on the line. And the fact that BOTH political parties we have today legtitimized the workers. During the Haymarket Strike era - the Republican Party had huge newspaper ads in Chicago newspapers, demanding change for the working class. The Republcian Party was sort ot f the "Occupy" of the era.
Now since the Nineteen eighties, and especially with the Big Bank Reform acts that were brought about end of Clinton's Presidency, we no longer have Glass Steagal. Jobs are outsourced, with the "experts" saying that is just the way it has to be. Everything that was accomplished has been undone.
The One Big Money Party and its doctrine of Greed has brought about a return to the Dickinsonian conditions of the late 1880's.
Clouseau2
(60 posts)(paraphrasing)
"What's the best way to become rich?"
Dogbert: "Crime and inheritance are the most popular methods."
"Which one is better?"
Dogbert: "It's best to have your parents do the crime, and then inherit the money."
TBF
(32,084 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Hardly a prediction.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Namvet67
(111 posts)They're scared
tooeyeten
(1,074 posts)SCOTUS
WillyT
(72,631 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Just look at the founding fathers -- mostly propertied, influential men. Merchants, brewers, shipowners, plantation owners, and media barons (Franklin).
WillyT
(72,631 posts)<And...>
The Great Merger Movement was a predominantly U.S. business phenomenon that happened from 1895 to 1905. During this time, small firms with little market share consolidated with similar firms to form large, powerful institutions that dominated their markets. It is estimated that more than 1,800 of these firms disappeared into consolidations, many of which acquired substantial shares of the markets in which they operated. The vehicle used were so-called trusts. In 1900 the value of firms acquired in mergers was 20% of GDP. In 1990 the value was only 3% and from 19982000 it was around 1011% of GDP. Companies such as DuPont, US Steel, and General Electric that merged during the Great Merger Movement were able to keep their dominance in their respective sectors through 1929, and in some cases today, due to growing technological advances of their products, patents, and brand recognition by their customers. There were also other companies that held the greatest market share in 1905 but at the same time did not have the competitive advantages of the companies like DuPont and General Electric. These companies such as International Paper and American Chicle saw their market share decrease significantly by 1929 as smaller competitors joined forces with each other and provided much more competition. The companies that merged were mass producers of homogeneous goods that could exploit the efficiencies of large volume production. In addition, many of these mergers were capital-intensive. Due to high fixed costs, when demand fell, these newly-merged companies had an incentive to maintain output and reduce prices. However more often than not mergers were "quick mergers". These "quick mergers" involved mergers of companies with unrelated technology and different management. As a result, the efficiency gains associated with mergers were not present. The new and bigger company would actually face higher costs than competitors because of these technological and managerial differences. Thus, the mergers were not done to see large efficiency gains, they were in fact done because that was the trend at the time. Companies which had specific fine products, like fine writing paper, earned their profits on high margin rather than volume and took no part in Great Merger Movement.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergers_and_acquisitions#History_of_M.26A
Add to that, Mass Media Marketing through Newspapers, Radio, TV, and now the Internet, and you have a whole new bigger monster.
Don't forget to check out this example: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002619831
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)The population of Boston in 1822 when it was chartered was about 46,226. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston
Being a prominent silversmith made you a pillar of the community.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Thank you.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)for a RWer Debs had some pretty good ideas. BTW, that was irony.
He's to the right of me, but my younger brother is a big fan.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)...should fully adopt and embrace the Metric System.
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)it will carrying a bible and wrapped in a flag"
Attributed to Sinclair Lewis, but it really isn't known who said it.
However it seems so very true today.