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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Wed May 4, 2016, 03:15 AM May 2016

Robert Reich: Why is there no-lose socialism for the rich and cutthroat--

--hyper-capitalism for everyone else?

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/36650-venezuelan-banker-given-asylum-by-us-found-in-panama-papers

Because the rules of the game – including labor laws, pension laws, corporate laws, and tax laws – have been crafted by those at the top, and the lawyers and lobbyists who work for them.

Does that mean we have to await Bernie Sanders’s “political revolution” (or, perish the thought, Donald Trump’s authoritarian populism) before any of this is likely to change?

Before we go to the barricades, you should know about another CEO named Hamdi Ulukaya, who’s developing a third model – neither no-lose socialism for the rich nor hyper-capitalism for everyone else.

Ulukaya is the Turkish-born founder and CEO of Chobani, the upstart Greek yogurt maker recently valued at as much as $5 billion.

Last Tuesday Ulukaya announced he’s giving all his 2,000 full-time workers shares of stock worth up to 10 percent of the privately held company’s value when it’s sold or goes public, based on each employee’s tenure and role at the company.The Third Way: Share-the-Gains Capitalism
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Robert Reich: Why is there no-lose socialism for the rich and cutthroat-- (Original Post) eridani May 2016 OP
The Agenda Is Always The Same - Enslave The 99% - Enrich The 1% cantbeserious May 2016 #1
K&R for exposure. And for truth. eom Betty Karlson May 2016 #2
Rigged By The Criminals At The Top billhicks76 May 2016 #3
And the way this race is shaping up d_legendary1 May 2016 #4
 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
3. Rigged By The Criminals At The Top
Wed May 4, 2016, 04:50 AM
May 2016

No wonder they have created a police state. They fear their time is coming like it always eventually has throughout history.

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)
4. And the way this race is shaping up
Wed May 4, 2016, 05:15 AM
May 2016

It will still continue under two candidates not named Bernie Sanders.

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