Trickle-Down

Were more than a decade into the 21st century. Id hoped in vain that some basic understandings of how non-Black people should interact with Black people could be something I could take for granted. But no. Somehow there are those people who remain entirely cl…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Field Collection Jack Mason The theory of fashion adoption is called the upward-flow theory.  It states that the young- especially those of low-income families…

Bill Gates, a man with a fortune valued at $106 billion, is no longer an entrepreneur. He is now a rentier ("60% of his assets invested in equities"), and, on the side, a philanthropist ("Gates added $16 billion to his net worth this year, despite giving away…

I refer to the three erudite articles written by the famous economist Pranab Bardhan: “Does inequality matter when poverty is falling?”, “Equality-efficiency trade-off”, and “A link among inequality, conflict and cooperation” (September 4, 5 and 6 respectivel…

OPINION: Archie Mountbatten-Windsor has a new nanny. His third. I feel a joke coming on: How many nannies does it take to change a nappy? I can picture the process. One to take the nappy off, one to fold the nappy, one to dispose the nappy. No doubt this …

It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. The Marxist German playwright devised theatrical meth…

“I think when you’re talking about universal basic income, and for me it was reading Andrew Yang’s book, The War on Normal People, which really opened my eyes in a way that I had not fully realized before of the tsunami that we have coming toward us in the fo…

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One of the biggest lies foisted on the American people is that as rich people get richer, we all benefit the so-called trickle-down theory. For decades, working families have been told not to worry about the growing wealth gap between the nations haves and h…

I find the 1896 election and events following to be a major turning point that set us on the path to where we are now. "Trickle-down economics" used to be known as the "Horse and sparrow theory" which was responsible for the "Panic of 1896" so keep that in …