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How inequality cost workers $50 trillion (with Carter Price)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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We Need to Make Less Money

If you raise wages for the bottom 90%, will increase costs for corporate america, and we'll have this incredibly uncompetitive economy. And i just have to say, the data tells us that's not what's happened. We slashed wages at the bottom. We've allowed wages to stagnate for the vast majority of America. It's almost inconceivable how different the country would be if we hadn't screwed this up in this way. neo liberalism is simply an ideology that concentrates wealth and advantage.

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