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  >People's Policy Project
  >The primary mission of 3P is to publish ideas and analysis that assist in the development of an economic system that serves the many, not the few.

Some article titles:

  >Tackling Inequality Through the Social Ownership of Capital
  >Capitalism is hostile to families. The welfare state can fix that.
  >The Difficulty of Using the Firm in Socialist Policy

With this as context, it's pretty easy to see that the thread's post is clearly anti-capitalist, socialist propaganda, with a heavy political agenda to make people mad at "the rich" and support overthrowing "the system."

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Agreed - for the first time in history 50% of the world is middle class [1]. I’m much more optimistic than the article’s POV.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2018/09/27...

Would you like to engage with the ideas in the piece?

It's essentially "rich people are richer than me, and that makes me mad." There is no novel idea here to engage with. People have been jealous of wealth since the beginning of time. But now we cloak that jealously with faux moral outrage and elaborate economic "solutions."

Can't it be "poor people are getting poorer because rich people are taking wealth away from them on balance, and that makes us mad". I mean... that's bad right? It should make us mad. We're a wealthier society on average than we were in the 80's, we all should be wealthier, yet we aren't.

I genuinely don't understand the denialism on this. You don't have to be a raving socialist to recognize that an outcome is unfair. Can't you be a free market republican and want to see the poor do better along with the rest of us?

Workers are poorer. That's the issue. Wage slave is not just a fancy association of world, it is now the state of a lot of people.

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