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PDJane

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3. This is not just the bad economy.

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue May 7, 2013, 07:34 AM

May 2013

It's due to a mindset that emphasizes monetary use instead of value. It's due to deliberate government policies that don't value labour. It's due to a neo-con agenda that moves money, and quite deliberately, to the top.

If more people understood that they have very little to lose, perhaps that would change.

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