Pluralistic: America and "national capitalism" (18 Feb 2025)

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The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing: From each to their ability, to each according to their need?
Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3): DEFINITELY not a pyramid scheme.
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Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar: We don't tax billionaires to fight the national debt. We tax billionaires to fight BILLIONAIRES.
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Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust: Big Tobacco's cancer denial playbook is alive and well.
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There's no such thing as "shareholder supremacy": When "fiduciary duty" means "whatever I wanted to do."
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America's best-paid CEOs have the worst-paid employees: Incentives matter, especially when it comes to stock buybacks.
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Bankruptcy is very, very good: "A large increase in earned income, employment, assets, real estate, secured debt, home ownership, and wealth that persists for more than 25 years after a court ruling."
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Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense: We're living through a revolution, but all we hear about is scams.
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