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Gregorian

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4. I love Reich, but I think he's missing it here. What he says is true, but...
Mon Sep 28, 2015, 04:39 PM
Sep 2015

He needs to dig a little deeper; go where most economists don't go. Looking at the more basic structure of employer/employee, we see the very crux of the inequality. It isn't fixable, it's the very foundation of capitalism.

My biggest fear is that Bernie is elected, and the people don't unite, and the political system is cast in steel.

We CAN change to a better system/arrangement, but it means a far greater overhaul than I bet his book addresses.

Simply put, my way of stating the change that needs to happen is that the notion of employee simply disappears. We all become owners.

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