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Related: About this forumRobert Reich's Documentary "Inequality For All." Worth The Watch.
It begs the questions: once these corporations have lowered all the wages, and outsourced all the jobs...who is supposed to buy their products? The 'smartest guys in the room' really have a very short-sighted, ultimately self-defeating philosophy.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)from The Weinstein Co., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)Once we have a mass of people who depend on them for food to stay alive they are basically your slaves...and you don't need them as a market...Slavery is not a market force...and feudalism becomes the new system.
Wish I could have seen that video.
djean111
(14,255 posts)are missing the point. The object is not to raise them up. The object is to pull us down.
And, again, any regulations that affect profits will be dealt with in a private investor-run court.
libodem
(19,288 posts)TrollBuster9090
(5,954 posts)after years of seeing Robert Reich being interviewed on MSNBC and other places, I never knew how short he was until I saw him standing next to Alan Simpson in this documentary. Because nobody at any of the sensible, liberal news outlets that interviewed him ever mentioned it. Awesome.
If this were the bad old days, he'd be known from coast to coast as "Pint-sized liberal economist Robert Reich;" and all the puff pieces about him would have had headlines like "Little Economist Packs a Big Punch," and "Keynesian Gnome Triumphs Over Austrian Trolls."
libodem
(19,288 posts)And very compassionate about economic conditions of the regular folk. He just seems decent.