Uprising Excerpt of Richard Wolff on the US and World’s Economy Health
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This really pisses me off ... I like and respect Wolff, but his claim that most of the jobs before the "great recession" were good jobs contradicts much of his whole message and that of the Left's as well. The narrative is that for over 30 years wages and benefits have been dropping for the average worker. So ... just looking at the last 8 without allowing for that is nonsensical.
Also ... the costs of what we are doing, what we are allowing to be done ... the importion of illegal aliens under the Leftist idea that this is somehow freedom or just is what is partially undercutting workers here ... but no one has the guts to say that.
Also, the cost of losing generations of poor families these days is a huge social cost ... the difference between these people using social services, wasting social services, entering the criminal justice system and in general being a drag on our culture or economy .. those cost have to be born by someone, something?
We see populations with problems are the ones that breed the fastest, the ones that become the most criminal the biggest costs ... and yet to say that or suggest ways to deal with it is always attacked.
While I agree with the values of Wolff on socialism and democracy in the workplace, this is the typical just telling people what they want to hear, without defining, analyzing and working towards a real solution.
This is why when the great recession happened everyone had a lot of hope listening to Richard Wolff, he had a great audience ... which he has succeeded now in putting to sleep, because in order to sell books and speaking engagements, he cannot tell this audience what they really need to hear.
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