Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024
As the new year approaches, now's as good a time as any to reflect on what's important and how we get there. Maybe 2024 is the year you realize you're a socialist!
Why You Should Be A Socialist In 2024 – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Covid wealth transfer
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/16/riche...
https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/sur...
https://inequality.org/great-divide/u...
Wealth transfer since 1975
https://www.businessinsider.com/wealt...
PTO statistics
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/busine....
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
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releas...
Nearly 100 million fall under $1.90/day during COVID
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developme...
Bosses bet on workers getting COVID
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-can...
Layoffs during COVID
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/tem...
Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/...
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
https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Vacation days & paid time off
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/05/heres...
Maternity leave
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
Legal & societal changes growing the gap between productivity and wages
https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-...
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