Tag: rich

We’re back to the excesses of the Gilded Age, and Elon Musk is a modern-day robber baron.

A government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.

If today's companies were truly offering a fair return to the taxpayers who built their businesses, they'd be doing a lot more to ensure that all Americans have the means to support their families.

For the great majority of Americans without a share of the stock market, and for those who can't work from home, the pandemic is adding the prospect of a financial collapse to all their other concerns.

That 60% of Americans whose wealth is matched by a roomful of billionaires should be working together to fight economic injustice.

"This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. society."

"The big financial institutions who were– obviously the biggest winners of the last bailout– they’re gonna win again. They always win. That’s kinda the way our system is organized."

At a time when almost everyone feels burdened and fearful, the use of power and privilege to exploit weakness and vulnerability is morally intolerable.

These wealthy few can exploit the vulnerabilities of societies in crisis to make themselves even wealthier.

"A small handful of billionaires should not be able to accumulate more money than they could spend in 10 lifetimes while millions of Americans are living in poverty and dying because they can't afford healthcare."