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The Only Way To Grow The Economy In A Way That Benefits The Bottom 90 Percent Is To Change The Structure Of The Economy. At The Least, This Requires Stronger Unions And A Higher Minimum Wage.

In The Early 1970s, Milton Friedman Argued That Corporations Should Not Be Socially Responsible Because They Had No Mandate To Be; They Existed To Make Money, Not To Be Charitable Institutions. But In The Economy Of The 21st Century, Corporations Cannot Be Socially Responsible, If Social Responsibility Is Understood To Mean Sacrificing Profits For The Sake Of Some Perceived Social Good. That's Because Competition Has Become So Much More Intense.

Most Americans Are On A Downward Escalator. Median Wage In The United States, Adjusted For Inflation, Keeps On Dropping.

If You Give Up On Politics, You're Giving Up On Democracy. And If You Give Up On Democracy, You're Basically Saying To The Moneyed Interests, The Powerful People And Institutions Of Society, Take It All. That's A Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Then We Give Up. Then We Are 100 Percent Plutocracy.

The Path To Success Used To Be Up And Through An Organization. Now The Path To Success Is Increasingly Through Self-promotion.