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Trickle-down

mardi 22 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Biden should reject the dogma of trickle-down, now packaged as "to make life easier for everyone, make the rich richer first", and start investing their money in making our country better for everyone.

The more income you have, the more satisfied you tend to be with economic inequality.

The article makes the error of equating "your income" with "how much you earn." That is an error because, as we know, the rich mostly don't "earn" all their income — but they try to claim they do.

Flank leverage

mardi 22 décembre 2020 à 01:00

AOC: *"One major difference between GOP and Dems is that [Republicans] leverage their right flank to gain policy concessions and generate enthusiasm, while Dems lock their left flank in the basement [because] they think that will make Republicans be nicer to them."*

In addition, we see that the Democratic leadership adopted a fool's strategy to respond to Sen. Toomey's demand for a last-minute concession: namely, to insist on the deal already made. This led, unsurprisingly, to a "compromise" which was to give (in some rough sense) half the concession that was demanded. Democrats have done this foolish thing before.

If they were seriously ready to fight, they would have come back demanding a concession of equal importance in the other direction. Then the natural compromises would have been "both concessions" or "neither concession."

Global food industry

mardi 22 décembre 2020 à 01:00

*Global food industry on course to drive rapid habitat loss.*

Thugs killing

mardi 22 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Video of the death of Muhammad Muhaymin Jr in 2017 shows that thugs killed him pretty much the way they killed George Floyd this year.

Conscription

mardi 22 décembre 2020 à 01:00

The Eritrean army, invading Tigray, seized and conscripted Eritrean refugees who had fled there.

Eritrea's conscription is basically condemnation to a life of servitude, which is why so many people have fled from there.

I'm richer than you! infinity loop