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Happy New Year! You've probably heard a lot of talk about socialism becoming more popular over the past few years. There's a reason for that! The capitalist system has shown itself to be incapable of solving the problems it creates, and more and more people are living a worse life than their parents or grandparents. What's going on here, and is socialism the way forward?
Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2023 - Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Ten richest double their wealth while bottom 99% of humanity’s fall/would still be richer than 99% of the world after 99.99% loss
www.oxfam.org/...
Nearly 100 million fall under $1.90/day during COVID
blogs.worldban...
Bosses bet on workers getting COVID
www.bbc.com/ne...
Layoffs during COVID
www.bls.gov/op...
Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein
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45% of new created wealth goes to top 1%/CEOs make 350x what their workers do/Wages are lower than 50 years ago/half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck/$50T transfer of wealth from bottom 90% to top 1% since 1975
www.theguardia...
Vacation days & paid time off
www.cnbc.com/2...
Maternity leave
www.theguardia...
Gender pay gap
www.pewresearc...
Legal & societal changes growing the gap between productivity and wages
www.epi.org/pr...
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