Monday Ménage

Robert B Reich. Gary J Floyd. DJ Kyos.

Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political institutions that define the market. This tautology is easily confused with a moral claim that people deserve what they are paid. Yet this claim is meaningful only if the system’s legal and political institutions are morally just. It has lured us into thinking nothing can or should be done to alter what people are paid because the market has decreed it. By this logic, the oligarchy is natural and inevitable. Robert B. Reich.

Capital sees politicians as a means to their ends, just another employee, or a potential bankable asset. And politicians, whoring themselves to the highest bidder, write their laws for a seat at the table. Some politicians aren’t directly on the take but it’s hard to imagine, that, while on the public’s dime, they’re at least not on a job interview. Capital rewards their loyal underlings with no-show jobs for their idiot relations. Gary J. Floyd.

Politicians know the poor exists when they are about to deliver the speech to the poor or when they seek sympathy or votes from the poor, but before or after that, they don’t see the poor, because they are blinded by the money they are taking from the poor. DJ Kyos.