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In reply to the discussion: There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged [View all]pscot
(21,024 posts)67. It’s different today
.... When people talk about opportunity nowadays, theyre often not trying to refine the debate over inequality, theyre trying to negate it. The social function of mobility-talk is usually to excuse inequality, not to change it; to persuade us that the system we have now is fair and even naturalor that it can be made so with a few more charter schools or student loans or something. Because everyone has a chance at making it into the One Percent, this version of opportunity tells us, theres nothing wrong with letting the One Percent hog every dish at the banquet.
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There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged [View all]
xchrom
Mar 2014
OP
So now he is pushing for neo-liberal free-trade and neo-conservative interventionism?
reformist2
Mar 2014
#12
You can look at "...unprecedented repug obstructionism...." as a separate issue.
fleabiscuit
Mar 2014
#19
It won't matter when he's out of office. But we will keep discussing Dem policy.
cui bono
Mar 2014
#65
But if you just keep working harder pushing that broom for more hours and less money, someday you're
Ed Suspicious
Mar 2014
#17