I'm One of Biden's Advisers. Here's How I Think About His Economic Agenda.

[raging moderate]

1. They believe the rich tycoons are the only true workers.

I remember my sudden enlightenment in the eighties, reading a book written by a right-wing reactionary. This writer declared that people doing physically demanding jobs were not really workers; she said they were "only laborers." And therefore, in her estimation, these people deserved only enough pay to barely keep living. She thought the "true workers" (the rich tycoons and their designated cronies) should rake in almost all of the profits.