This editorial cartoon about CEO's from 1896

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborworld.org/

[druidity33]

1. K&R for Unions! nt.

[pleah]

2. K&R

[TwilightZone]

3. The more things change....

There are many similarities between our current economic situation and prior eras. The Robber Baron era, for one.

It's surprising that those connections aren't made more frequently.

[barbtries]

5. exactly what i was going to say

then i glimpsed your post.

typo

[mix]

10. We're suffering through the second Gilded Age

those images are from the first...megawealth and mega poverty, no regulation or worker protections...

See how the poverty rate jumps dramatically when raygun came into office in 1980?

[gratuitous]

13. Keep that purple line in mind

When someone is selling you the line that the Great Society programs weren't worth squat. That's the reason the repressive robber barons had to get Reagan into the White House in 1980. Too many people were participating in the American Dream and getting ahead. Fortunately, the robber barons got the upper hand again, and through the Voodoo Economics of trickle down, were able to restore the overrich to their unearned position.

[mix]

14. The failure to address poverty from 1980 to the present

shows how neo-liberalism/free markets were a bipartisan concoction...politicians of both parties forgot the poor, all 30 million plus of them, and relegated their fate to the market over the last 30 years...Obama unfortunately is of this mindset and political class whose core belief in the invisible hand no longer seems tenable.

[johan helge]

15. Why did it go down during the 60s? What that the Great Society? (nt)

[BlooInBloo]

16. And that's the end of this thread.

[NashVegas]

4. What Capitalist Non-Laborers Don't Want Us To Realize

Is they're the ones getting fat off of the wealth we produce.

[malaise]

6. Democracy for the Few

It's been that way a long time.

[SlingBlade]

7. K & R

:toast: :bounce: :hi:

[Wednesdays]

8. That caricature looks a lot like William McKinley, who was elected prez that year

And McKinley was hardly an enemy of Big Business.

[cannabis_flower]

9. One should remember

that McKinley was assassinated. Not suggesting anything. Just saying.

[Omaha Steve]

11. Kick

[Kaleko]

12. Pictures worth a thousand words. Rec'd.

Old Capitalist Pyramid:





New Capitalist Pyramid: