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marmar

(77,073 posts) Mon Jan 13, 2014, 10:15 PM Jan 2014

Professor Richard Wolff: "Something is happening to a society ... It's getting mean."

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Economic Update: The Trend to Inequality

by Richard Wolff.
Published on January 12, 2014

Updates on economic decline and meanness, car sales in China, McDonalds embarrassed, Cuba exports doctors to Brazil, and a campaign to rescue higher education from "efficiency." Major discussions of conservative inequality denials and of the significance of "productivity" statistics. Response to question on the nature, origin, and meaning of "profit."

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Professor Richard Wolff: "Something is happening to a society ... It's getting mean." (Original Post) marmar Jan 2014 OP

I disagree. There are no more meanies than usual, but the fact they have the power ... Scuba Jan 2014 #1

Scuba

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1. I disagree. There are no more meanies than usual, but the fact they have the power ...

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 10:45 PM

Jan 2014

... and own the media makes it appear that we're getting meaner.

I meet nice people everywhere I go.

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