You get that something can be racist even if the person doing the thing doesn’t intend to be racist, right? Doing something racist means someone is being racist even if the person doesn’t have any conscious feelings of hatred or animosity toward the group toward which their action is racist.

Basically all club owners cheat the dancers. The house fees, DJ fees, costume fees, late fees, etc. the owners charge the dancers have all been found to be potential violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. As well as the practice of classifying dancers as “independent contractors” when in fact, because of all the…

The secular Turkish “Kemalist” state has been oppressing the Kurds in Turkey and neighboring regions since before Erdogan was born. Preserving the fiction of a homogeneous “Turkish” state has always been a major priority of both the democratic and military backed secular Turkish governments going back to basically the…

Billionaires.

It’s fake redistribution. A VAT, by taxing consumption rather than wealth, income, etc. does nothing to redistribute rich peoples’ source of power. Their ownership of vast amounts of capital. Real redistribution could be achieved with a wealth tax, a much larger estate tax, higher capital gains tax rates, a financial…

Not only is private sector experience not a credential for holding executive office in government, it’s arguably a negative quality. Due to the vast differences between the goals and operations of a business compared to the government. Especially the federal government. Just looking at the 21st century we see that…

Since government and business are completely different kinds of institutions with completely different goals, abilities, “stakeholders”, and method of operation, it seems like Yang’s business background would not have equipped him with the skill set or mind set necessary to be the highest level government executive…

But this plan does almost nothing to change the reasons why wages have stagnated for decades. The structural changes which were made specifically to increase the power of capital over labor. Yang’s plan is basically just a way for workers to fund their own redistribution program (since the funding source is a VAT). A…

The problem with blaming “the consumer” is it ignores how consumption choices are made in the context of a larger system. It makes sense that one would try to buy the cheapest TV that meets your needs when your well paying union job evaporated when production moved to China. Or that you would save money by buying via…

If the concern really is with the long term impact of technology on capital owners’ need for human labor, why is the Freedom Dividend funded by a consumption tax? Why wouldn’t it be funded through a tax on the beneficiaries of technological improvements which reduce the need for labor, the capital owners? Wang just…

I agree saying “offensive” things shouldn’t allow someone to be terminated from their job in most cases. But that’s because I want to reduce the power of employers as much as possible and get rid of the whole concept of “at-will” employment. I haven’t heard much from the “sensible” left about the need to minimize an…

It’s not the most “progressive” policy in a technical sense because it’s funded by a regressive tax (VAT). And it’s not the most progressive in a political sense. Because the program is fundamentally designed to continue a system where non-capital owning workers must be “incentivized” to exchange their labor for money …

How can her description of how Yang’s rhetoric and self-deprecating use of his “Asianess” make her feel as a fellow Asian-American be a “smear”? Are you claiming Wang is lying about her own feelings? Or she made up the quotes she used to illustrate what Yang has said that doesn’t sit well with her as an…

It is. That’s why many Democratic party elected officials and other influential supporters have been talking about how the problem of an arguably illegitimate conservative SCOTUS majority can be “rectified”. A conservative SCOTUS majority was an apparent impediment for almost the entire suite of New Deal policy…

Do you think banking regulations are somehow immutable? Regulations are the one area of what is effectively lawmaking where the President has the power to make changes without the need for explicit Congressional assistance/approval. If a wealth tax could pass Congress, changing whatever existing regulatory language…

I don’t know if you noticed, but we’re in the beginning stages of a primary election to determine who will be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 election. You get that even if trump is impeached, the election is still going to happen, right? So it’s kind of a “problem in front of us”, if you care about the Democratic…

“The majority of the super-rich’ wealth is either in company value that is hard to measure, or in shares of publicly traded companies they have a big ownership stake in. They’re not sitting on a gold vault like Scrooge McDuck.”

Republican tax haters argue there are “circles of caring” which makes it right to care more about one’s family, for example, thus taxation cane create an unreasonable burden on the ability to take care of their family in order to help people they don’t care about as much.

You’d think. If you didn’t understand that capitalism at it’s foundation a struggle between owners of capital and the people who provide the labor that capital needs in order to operate as to who can get the larger “slice of the pie”. So even with all the administrative costs and organizational “energy” it takes for…

I think post 2016, certain people saw how useful the weaponization of what used to be kind of esoteric theoretical concepts mostly found in academic settings could be for crafting a narrative the “mainstream” audience would be able to assimilate and spread themselves. Even irrefutable changes to the empirical…