Who wins here?
- The Koch brothers oil assets (measured at a Forbes $72 billion) and the politicians they and corporate persons can buy, or
- The Al Gore types with their slide shows and supportive mothers pushed by their children's high-pitched concerns?
3. Will tomorrow's elite live luxuriously in a different stratosphere from Earth's groveling workers?
For your scratch sheet analysis, here's how one (US) advanced nation is trending, without including capital gain returns.
As labor productivity climbs, mega-corporations' profits soar, and 25% of corporations pay no taxes, corporations are now confirmed as blessed people who can individually finance a billion dollar campaign from their corporate wallet.
Will this chart continue its trend to Elysium, where workers have no perceivable bargaining power, and make the 1940-70's be seen as labor's heyday?
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