Some restaurants are functioning profitably on a "pay what you wish" basis.

It may work better in a place where people are not poor. Plutocratist politicians should be ashamed of how much they have made people poor in the US.

Giving tenants lawyers for eviction hearings helps them tremendously because landlords' lawyers can no longer deny them their rights.

The global economy has been directed towards enriching plutocrats. Someone becomes a new billionaire every other day, while the poorer half of humanity have gained no wealth in a year.

Puerto Rico's governor is using the hurricane as an excuse to privatize the electric grid.

Privatization sales often bring in far less than what the sold asset is worth. I suspect this is because the officials who favor privatization are happy to enrich plutocrats an the expense of the public — in other words, that they want the state to give the plutocrats a good deal, rather than to get a good deal for itself.

11 countries including Australia, Japan and Canada have agreed to the TPP, which I think means they have subjected themselves to the ISDS clause ("I Sue Democratic States"). I presume it is still included, because I'd expect I would have heard if it were removed.

I am sorry for those countries.